Eben F. Stone

Eben Francis Stone ( born August 3, 1822 in Newburyport, Massachusetts, † January 22, 1895 ) was an American politician. Between 1881 and 1887 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Eben Stone visited the North Andover Academy and then studied until 1843 at Harvard University. After a subsequent law degree from the same university in 1846 and was admitted to his lawyer, he began to work in Newburyport in this profession. He was 1851 President of the Municipal year. He became a member of the Republican Party. In the years 1857, 1858 and 1861 he was a member of the Massachusetts Senate. During the Civil War he served as regimental commander of a unit of Massachusetts in the army of the Union.

1867 Stone was elected mayor of Newburyport. In the years 1867, 1877, 1878 and 1880 he was a deputy in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts. In the congressional elections of 1880, in the Sixth Election District of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George B. Loring on March 4, 1881. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1887 three legislative periods. Since 1883, he represented the seventh district where his state.

In 1886, Stone opted not to run again. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on January 22, 1895 in his home town of Newburyport.