David Stone
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David Stone (17 February 1770 -- 7 October 1818) was the Democratic-Republican governor of the U.S. state of North Carolina from 1808 to 1810. Both before and after his term as governor, he served as a U.S. senator, between 1801 and 1807 and between 1813 and 1814.
Stone was born in Bertie County, North Carolina, the son of a farmer. He attended Windsor Academy and later the College of New Jersey, where he graduated with honors. Returning to North Carolina, Stone studied law in Halifax and was granted his law license in 1790.
In 1789, Stone was a member of the convention in Fayetteville which ratified the United States Constitution. He proceeded to represent Bertie County in the North Carolina House of Commons until 1795, when he was named to the North Carolina Superior Court.
In 1798, Stone stepped down from the court to serve in the United States House of Representatives for one term; during the contested 1800 presidential election, he cast his vote for Thomas Jefferson when the election was sent to the House for a final decision.
Defeated in a bid for a second term in the House, Stone was elected to the United States Senate by the North Caroina General Assembly in 1801. He resigned his seat in the Senate in 1807 to return to the state Superior Court, but was there for only a year before being elected Governor of North Carolina in November 1808.
As Governor, Stone was an ardent supporter of agricultural and industrial development, as well as of the expansion to the education system to both sexes and all social classes. Stone served the constitutional limit of three one-year terms and, following his term, served in the North Carolina House of Commons for a year before being named to the U.S. Senate once again in 1813.
Stone's second term in the U.S. Senate lasted only a year; he was censured by the NC General Assembly for failing to support the administration during the War of 1812, as designed his Senate seat in December 1814, retiring to his Wake County plantation, where he died in 1818 and is buried.