David Stone | |
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| Member of theU.S. House of Representatives fromNorth Carolina's8th district | |
| In office March 4, 1799 – March 3, 1801 | |
| Preceded by | Dempsey Burges |
| Succeeded by | Charles Johnson |
| United States Senator fromNorth Carolina | |
| In office March 4, 1801 – February 17, 1807 | |
| Preceded by | Timothy Bloodworth |
| Succeeded by | Jesse Franklin |
| In office March 4, 1813 – December 24, 1814 | |
| Preceded by | Jesse Franklin |
| Succeeded by | Francis Locke, Jr. |
| 15th Governor of North Carolina | |
| In office December 12, 1808 – December 1, 1810 | |
| Preceded by | Benjamin Williams |
| Succeeded by | Benjamin Smith |
| Personal details | |
| Born | (1770-02-17)February 17, 1770 Bertie County, Province of North Carolina, British America |
| Died | October 7, 1818(1818-10-07) (aged 48) nearRaleigh, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Political party | Democratic-Republican |
David Stone (February 17, 1770 – October 7, 1818) was the 15thgovernor of theU.S. state ofNorth Carolina from 1808 to 1810. Both before and after his term as governor, he served as aU.S. senator, between 1801 and 1807 and between 1813 and 1814.
Stone was born inBertie County in theProvince of North Carolina, the son of planter and politician Zedekiah Stone. He attendedWindsor Academy and later theCollege of New Jersey, where he graduated with honors. Returning to North Carolina, Stone studied law inHalifax and was granted his law license in 1790. He married Hannah Turner and began the construction of a large manor house on land given him by his father, Zedekiah Stone. This is now a historic site,Hope Plantation.[1]
In 1789, Stone was a member of the convention inFayetteville which ratified theUnited States Constitution. He proceeded to representBertie County in theNorth Carolina House of Commons until 1795, when he was named to theNorth Carolina Superior Court.
In 1798, Stone stepped down from the court to serve in theUnited States House of Representatives for one term; during the contested1800 presidential election, he cast his vote forThomas Jefferson when the election was sent to the House for a final decision.
Re-elected in a bid for a second term in the House, Stone resigned when he was elected to theUnited States Senate by theNorth Carolina General Assembly in late 1800. He sat as a justice of the Bertie County Court in the early 1800s, including the 1802 scare over a slave rebellion in Bertie County. He resigned his seat in the Senate in 1807 to return to the state Superior Court, but was there for only a year before being electedGovernor of North Carolina by the legislature in November 1808.
As Governor, Stone was an ardent supporter of agricultural and industrial development, as well as of the expansion to the education system to both sexes and all social classes. Stone was re-elected in 1809 but was defeated for a third one-year term in 1810 byBenjamin Smith.[2] Following his defeat, Stone served in theNorth Carolina House of Commons for a year before being named to the U.S. Senate once again in 1813.
Stone's second term in the U.S. Senate lasted only a year; he was censured by the NC General Assembly for failing to support the administration during theWar of 1812. Stone resigned his Senate seat in December 1814, retiring to his Wake County plantation, where he died in 1818 and is buried.
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| Preceded by | United States Representative in Congress fromNorth Carolina's 8th congressional district 1799–1801 | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | U.S. senator (Class 3) from North Carolina 1801–1807 Served alongside:Jesse Franklin,James Turner | Succeeded by |
| Preceded by | U.S. senator (Class 3) from North Carolina 1813–1814 Served alongside:James Turner | Succeeded by |
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| Preceded by | Governor of North Carolina 1808–1810 | Succeeded by |
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