Michael J. Stone

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

Career

Michael Stone was born into a famous political family. 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 signers of the Declaration of Independence; his younger brother John (1750-1804) was 1784-1795 Governor of Maryland. Michael Stone's grandson Frederick (1820-1899) was also a Congressman for Maryland.

Stone was born on the plantation Equality and attended the public schools of his home. Later he worked as a planter and as a politician. Between 1781 and 1783 he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland. In 1788 he was a delegate to the Assembly, which ratified the Constitution of the United States for the State of Maryland. He stood politically in opposition to the federal government under President George Washington ( Anti- Administration Group ).

In the congressional elections of 1789 Stone was elected in the first district of Maryland in the time which meets even in New York U.S. House of Representatives, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1789. Until March 3, 1791, he was able to complete the very first term in Congress. 1791 Stone was appointed as a judge in the first judicial district of Maryland. He died in 1812 and was buried on the plantation Equality.