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Eben Francis Stone (August 3, 1822 – January 22, 1895) was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts from 1881 to 1887.

Biography

Stone was born in Newburyport, Massachusetts to Ebenezer and Fanny (Coolidge) Stone.[1]

Stone attended North Andover Academy and graduated from Harvard University in 1843 and from Harvard Law School in 1846. He was admitted to the bar in 1847 and commenced practice in Newburyport, Massachusetts.

Early career

He served as president of the common council in 1851.

He served in the Massachusetts Senate in 1857, 1858, and 1861. Stone enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War, and commanded the 48th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. Stone served as the eleventh mayor of Newburyport in 1867. Stone served as member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives in 1867, 1877, 1878, and 1880.

Congress

Stone was elected as a Republican to the Forty-seventh, Forty-eighth, and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1887). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1886.

Later career and death

He resumed the practice of law in Newburyport, Massachusetts, where he died January 22, 1895. Stone was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery.

See also

References

  • United States Congress. "Eben F. Stone (id: S000956)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
  • Headley, Phineas Camp: Public men of to-day: being biographies of the President and Vice-President of the United States, each member of the Cabinet, the United States Senators and the members of the House of Representatives of the Forty-Seventh Congress, the Chief Justice and justices of the Supreme Court of the United, and of the Governors of the Several States., pages 590–591, (1882).

Notes

  1. ^ a b Currier, John James (1909), History of Newburyport, Mass: 1764–1905, Volume 2, Newburyport, MA: John James Currier, pp. 485–87
  2. ^ Currier, John James (1909), History of Newburyport, Mass: 1764–1905, Volume 2, Newburyport, MA: John James Currier, p. 606

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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 6th congressional district

March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883
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Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 7th congressional district

March 4, 1883 – March 3, 1887
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William Graves
Mayor of Newburyport, Massachusetts
1867–1867
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Nathaniel Pierce
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June 24, 1851 – January, 1852
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June 24, 1851 – January, 1852
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