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Richard Barnes Mason (January 16, 1797 – July 25, 1850) was an American military officer who was a career officer in the United States Army and the fifth military governor of California before it became a state.
This is the official account of a visit paid to the gold region in July 1848 by Colonel Richard Barnes Mason, who had been appointed to the military command in California, and wrote his report for the adjutant-general at Washington. It is dated from headquarters at Monterey, August 17, 1848.
Richard Barnes Mason (January 16, 1797 – July 25, 1850) was a career officer in the United States Army and the fifth military governor of California before it became a U.S. state.
Richard Barnes Mason, born in Virginia in 1797, was a Colonel in the United States Army when he arrived in 1847 in California to succeed Kearny as military governor. He was made a Brigadier General in 1848, and retained his position as governor until February 1849.
Richard Barnes Mason. (1797—1850) Quick Reference. (1797–1850) U.S. army officer and military governor, born in Fairfax County, Virginia. He received a U.S. Army commission as a second lieutenant of infantry in 1817. He served in the ... From: Mason, Richard Barnes in The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military »
Richard Barnes Mason (January 16, 1797 – July 25, 1850) was an American military officer who was a career officer in the United States Army and the fifth military governor of California before it became a state.
Among these officers was Richard Barnes Mason, a native of Virginia and a descendant of Col. George Mason, English states-man and soldier during the reigns of Charles I. and Charles II., who emigrated to the Virginia colony in 1654. General Mason's
