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Preceded by
  
Battles/wars
  
Succeeded by
  
John Kerr Hendrick

Name
  
William Stone


Political party
  
Role
  
U.S. representative

Resigned
  
March 3, 1895

Occupation
  
Party
  
Democratic Party

William Johnson Stone

Born
  
June 26, 1841Kuttawa, Kentucky (
1841-06-26
)

Died
  
March 12, 1923, Frankfort, Kentucky, United States

Resting place
  
New Bethel Cemetery

Battles and wars
  
Service/branch
  

William Johnson Stone (June 26, 1841 – March 12, 1923) was an US Representative from Kentucky.

Biography

He was born in Kuttawa, Caldwell (now Lyon) County, Kentucky on June 26, 1841. He attended the common schools and Q.M. Tyler's Collegiate Institute in Cadiz, Trigg County. Stone studied law. During the American Civil War he served as captain in the Confederate Army. After the war he engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives in 1867, 1875, and 1883, serving as speaker in 1875.

He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1885 – March 3, 1895): chairman, Committee on War Claims (Fiftieth Congress) He engaged in mercantile pursuits in Kuttawa, Lyon County; Confederate pension commissioner of Kentucky in 1912 and served until his death in Frankfort, Kentucky, March 12, 1923; interment in New Bethel Cemetery, Lyon County, Kentucky.

References

William Johnson Stone Wikipedia


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