William Johnson Stone (June 26, 1841 – March 12, 1923) was an US Representative

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 from Kentucky

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He was born in Kuttawa

Kuttawa, Kentucky

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, Caldwell (now Lyon

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) County, Kentucky on June 26, 1841. He attended the common schools and Q.M. Tyler’s Collegiate Institute in Cadiz

Cadiz, Kentucky

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, Trigg County

Trigg County, Kentucky

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. Stone studied law. During the American Civil War

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 he served as captain in the Confederate Army. After the war he engaged in agricultural pursuits. He was a member of the Kentucky House of Representatives

Kentucky House of Representatives

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 in 1867, 1875, and 1883, serving as speaker in 1875.

He was elected as a Democrat

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 to the Forty-ninth

49th United States Congress

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 and to the four succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1895): chairman, Committee on War Claims (Fiftieth Congress

50th United States Congress

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) He engaged in mercantile pursuits in Kuttawa, Lyon County; Confederate pension commissioner of Kentucky in 1912 and served until his death in Frankfort, Kentucky

Frankfort, Kentucky

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, March 12, 1923; interment in New Bethel Cemetery, Lyon County, Kentucky.

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