Joseph Champlin Stone

Joseph Champlin Stone ( born July 30, 1829 in Westport, Essex County, New York, † December 3, 1902 in Burlington, Iowa ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1879 he represented the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

In 1844, Joseph Stone came to what was then Iowa Territory. There he attended the public schools. Subsequently, he studied until 1854 at the Saint Louis University in Missouri Medicine. After qualifying as a doctor, he began to work in his new profession. During the Civil War he entered the Union army from the simple soldiers to up to captain. After the war he worked in Burlington ( Iowa) as a physician.

Politically, Stone member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1876 he was the first electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1877, the successor of George Washington McCrary. Until March 3, 1879, he completed a term in Congress. After the end of his time in the House of Representatives sat Stone his medical activities continue. He died on December 3, 1902 in Burlington, and was also buried there.

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