Charles Warren Stone

Charles Warren Stone ( born June 29, 1843 in Groton, Middlesex County, Massachusetts; † August 15, 1912 in Warren, Pennsylvania ) was an American politician. Between 1890 and 1899 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives. He was also from 1779 to 1883 Vice- Governor of that State.

Career

Charles Stone visited the Lawrence Academy in Groton and then until 1863 the Williams College in Williamstown. In the same year he moved to Warren in Pennsylvania, where he worked in the teaching profession. In 1865, he was in the Warren County School Board. After a subsequent law degree in 1867 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Warren to work in this profession. He was also curator of the Pennsylvania State College. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1870 and 1871 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania; 1877 to 1878 he was a member of the State Senate. Between 1879 to 1873, he served as lieutenant governor of his state representative from Governor Henry Hoyt. From 1887 to 1890 he served as Secretary of the Commonwealth, the managing official of the state government of Pennsylvania.

After the death of Mr Lewis Findlay Watson Stone was at the due election for the 27 seats of Pennsylvania as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 4 November 1890. After four elections he could remain until March 3, 1899 at the Congress. In this time of the Spanish-American War was from 1898. Since 1895 Stone was chairman of the Committee on Coinage, Weights, and Measures. In 1898 he was not re-elected.

Also in 1898, ran unsuccessfully for Charles Stone, the Office of the Governor of Pennsylvania. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on August 15, 1912 at his estate near Warren. In this city he was also buried.