{{Short description|American politician}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Eben Francis Stone | image = Eben Francis Stone CDV by John Adams Whipple, 1862.jpg | caption = Stone in 1862 | office1 = Member of the<br>[[U.S. House of Representatives]]<br> from [[Massachusetts]] | term_start1 = March 4, 1881 | term_end1 = March 3, 1887 | predecessor1 = [[George B. Loring]] | successor1 = [[William Cogswell]] | constituency1 = {{ushr|MA|6|C}} (1881–83)<br>{{ushr|MA|7|C}} (1883–87) | order2 = Chair of the [[Massachusetts Republican Party]] | term_start2 = 1879 | term_end2 = 1880 | predecessor2 = Adin Thayer | successor2 = [[Charles A. Stott]] | title3 = 11th Mayor of [[Newburyport, Massachusetts|Newburyport]] | term_start3 = 1867 | term_end3 = 1867 | predecessor3 = William Graves | successor3 = Nathaniel Pierce | title4 = Member of the [[Massachusetts Senate]]<br>for the 4th Essex district | term_start4 = 1857 | term_end4 = 1858 | predecessor4 = | successor4 = | term_start5 = 1861 | term_end5 = 1861 | predecessor5 = | successor5 = | title6 = President of the<br>[[Newburyport, Massachusetts|Newburyport]] Common Council | term_start6 = June 24, 1851 | term_end6 = January, 1852 | predecessor6 = New office | successor6 = | title7 = Member of the<br>[[Newburyport, Massachusetts|Newburyport]] Common Council<br>for Ward 4 | term_start7 = June 16, 1851 | term_end7 = January, 1852 | predecessor7 = New office | successor7 = | birth_date = August 3, 1822 | birth_place = [[Newburyport, Massachusetts]], [[United States|USA]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1895|1|22|1822|8|3}} | death_place = [[Newburyport, Massachusetts]], [[United States|USA]] | resting_place = Oak Hill Cometary | spouse = Harriet Perrin, (d. December 31, 1889) | profession = Attorney | party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] | alma_mater = [[Harvard University]] | children = Frances (Fanny) Coolidge Stone | allegiance = [[United States|United States of America]]<br/>[[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] | branch = [[Union Army]] | service_years = 1862 – September 3, 1863 | rank = [[File:Union Army colonel rank insignia.png|35px]] Colonel | commands = 48th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment | unit = | battles = [[American Civil War]] *[[Battle of Plains Store]] *[[Siege of Port Hudson]] | awards = | footnotes = <ref name="Currier1909">{{Citation|last=Currier|first=John James| title =History of Newburyport, Mass: 1764–1905, Volume 2| pages = 485–87 | publisher = John James Currier| location = Newburyport, MA | year = 1909}}</ref><ref>{{Citation|last=Currier|first=John James| title =History of Newburyport, Mass: 1764–1905, Volume 2| page = 606 | publisher = John James Currier| location = Newburyport, MA | year = 1909}}</ref> }}
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'''Eben Francis Stone''' (August 3, 1822 – January 22, 1895) was an American lawyer and politician who served three terms as a [[United States House of Representatives|U.S. representative]] from [[Massachusetts]] from 1881 to 1887.
== Biography == Stone was born in [[Newburyport, Massachusetts]] to Ebenezer and Fanny (Coolidge) Stone.<ref name="Currier1909" />
Stone attended [[North Andover Academy]] and graduated from [[Harvard University]] in 1843 and from [[Harvard Law School]] in 1846. He was [[Admission to the bar in the United States|admitted to the bar]] in 1847 and commenced practice in [[Newburyport, Massachusetts]].
=== Early career === He served as president of the common council in 1851.
He served in the [[Massachusetts Senate]] in 1857, 1858, and 1861. <!-- A grammar fix may be needed here. --> Stone enlisted in the [[Union Army]] during the [[American Civil War|Civil War]], and commanded the [[48th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry]] of the Massachusetts Volunteer Militia. Stone served as the eleventh mayor of [[Newburyport, Massachusetts|Newburyport]] in 1867. Stone served as member of the [[Massachusetts House of Representatives]] in 1867, 1877, 1878, and 1880.
=== Congress === Stone was elected as a [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]] to the [[47th United States Congress|Forty-seventh]], [[48th United States Congress|Forty-eighth]], and [[49th United States Congress|Forty-ninth]] Congresses (March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1887). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1886.
=== Later career and death === He resumed the practice of law in [[Newburyport, Massachusetts]], where he died January 22, 1895. Stone was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery.
==See also== * [[1877 Massachusetts legislature]] * [[1878 Massachusetts legislature]]
==References== {{CongBio|S000956}} * Headley, Phineas Camp: ''Public men of to-day: being biographies of the President and Vice-President of the United States, each member of the Cabinet, the United States Senators and the members of the House of Representatives of the Forty-Seventh Congress, the Chief Justice and justices of the Supreme Court of the United, and of the Governors of the Several States''., pages 590–591, (1882).
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==External links== *[http://www.mycivilwar.com/regiments/usa-ma/ma_inf_reg_48.htm The 48th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment] (Massachusetts Volunteer Militia).
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