Claudius Ulysses Stone (May 11, 1879 – November 13, 1957) was a

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from

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Biography

Born on a farm in Menard County, near

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, Stone attended the rural school and Western Normal College,

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. At the age of seventeen, Stone became a teacher in the Bee Grove rural school in Menard County for one year. He was the principal of Brimfield (Illinois) Public Schools for two years. During the

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, he served as a

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in Company K, Fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, from May 1898 to May 1899 with service in Cuba. He studied law at the

University of Michigan at Ann Arbor , mottoeng = "Arts, Knowledge, Truth" , former_names = Catholepistemiad, or University of Michigania (1817–1821) , budget = $10.3 billion (2021) , endowment = $17 billion (2021)As o ...

and at

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, Washington, D.C. Stone was elected county

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for

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, in 1902, reelected in 1906, and served until 1910. He served as president of the Association of County Superintendents of Schools of Illinois in 1909. He was

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in 1909 and commenced practice in

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. Stone was elected as a

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to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and Sixty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1917). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress. He was the

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of Peoria from 1917 until he resigned in October 1920 to practice law. He served as master in chancery of the circuit court of

from June 5, 1928, to January 20, 1945. He was editor and publisher of the '' Peoria Star'' from 1938 until 1949. He died in

, November 13, 1957. He was interred in Parkview Memorial Cemetery. His son, Claude "Bud" Stone was a member of the

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from 2001 to 2002.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Stone, Claudius Ulysses 1879 births 1957 deaths American newspaper publishers (people) School superintendents in Illinois People from Menard County, Illinois People from Peoria, Illinois Illinois postmasters University of Michigan Law School alumni Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Illinois Journalists from Illinois Schoolteachers from Illinois