Michael J. Stone

Michael Jenifer Stone (born 1747 in Port Tobacco Village , Charles County , Province of Maryland , †  1812 in Charles County, Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1789 and 1791 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Michael Stone came from a well-known family of politicians. One of his ancestors was the colonial governor of the province of Maryland , William Stone . His older brother Thomas (1743–1787) was one of the signatories of the Declaration of Independence ; his younger brother John (1750-1804) was between 1784 and 1795 governor of Maryland. Michael Stone's grandson Frederick (1820-1899) was also a congressman for Maryland.

Stone was born on the Equality Plantation and attended public schools in his homeland. Later he worked as a planter and as a politician. Between 1781 and 1783 he was a member of the Maryland House of Representatives . In 1788 he was a delegate to the convention that ratified the United States Constitution for the state of Maryland. He was politically in opposition to the federal government under President George Washington ( anti-administration faction ).

In the congressional elections of 1789 Stone was elected in the first constituency of Maryland in the US House of Representatives, which was then still in New York , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1789. By March 3, 1791, he was able to complete the very first legislative period in Congress . In 1791, Stone was appointed judge in the Maryland First Judicial District. He died in 1812 and was buried on the Equality Plantation .

Web links

• Michael J. Stone in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Michael J. Stone in the database of Find a Grave (English)