Henry Mayson (born c. 1835, also known as Henry Mason) was a delegate to the 1868 Mississippi Constitutional Convention and a state legislator in Mississippi.[1]
Mason was a leader in the African American community in Vicksburg, Mississippi.[2] He served in the Mississippi House of Representatives and edited the Colored Citizen.[3] It was the first of several newspapers for African Americans published in Mississippi during the Reconstruction era.[4] He was one of the founders of a benevolent aid society in Bolivar County in 1871.[5] A 1910 publication of the Mississippi Historical Society described him as an illiterate former African American political leader living in Monticello, Mississippi[6] and referred to him as "old darkery".[6]