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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriWilliam Joel STONE
(1848-1918)
Senate Years of Service:
1903-1918Party: DemocratSTONE, William Joel, a
Representative and a Senator from Missouri; born near Richmond,
Madison County, Ky., May 7, 1848; attended the public schools of
Richmond, Ky.; graduated from the University of Missouri at
Columbia in 1867; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1869 and
commenced practice in Bedford, Ind.; moved to Columbia, Mo., where
he was city attorney for a few months in 1870, and later in the
same year moved to Nevada, Mo., and continued the practice of law;
prosecuting attorney of Vernon County, Mo., 1873-1874; presidential
elector on the Democratic ticket in 1876; elected as a Democrat to
the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4,
1885-March 3, 1891); was not a candidate for renomination in 1890;
chairman, Committee on War Claims (Fiftieth Congress); Governor of
Missouri 1893-1897; moved to Jefferson City, Mo., in 1893; member
of the Democratic National Committee 1896-1904, serving as vice
chairman 1900-1904; moved to St. Louis in 1897 and continued the
practice of law; returned to Jefferson City in 1903; elected as a
Democrat to the United States Senate in 1902; reelected in 1908 and
1914 and served from March 4, 1903, until his death; chairman,
Committee on Additional Accommodations for the Library
(Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Revolutionary Claims
(Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Corporations Organized in the
District of Columbia (Sixty-second Congress), Committee on Foreign
Relations (Sixty-third through Sixty-fifth Congresses), Committee
on Indian Affairs (Sixty-third Congress); died in Washington, D.C.,
April 14, 1918; interment in Deepwood Cemetery, Nevada, Vernon
County, Mo.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Towne, Ruth. Senator William J. Stone and the
Politics of Compromise. Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat Press,
1979; U.S. Congress. Memorial Addresses. 65th Cong., 3rd
sess. 1918-1919. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office,
1919.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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