STONE, David, senator, born in Hope, North Carolina, 17 February, 1770; died in Raleigh, North Carolina, 7 October, 1818. His father, Zedekiah Stone. was a member of the Provincial congress at Halifax, North Carolina, in 1776, and for many years a state senator. David was graduated at Princeton in 1788, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1790. He was a member of the legislature in 1791-'4, judge of the supreme court of North Carolina in 1795-'8, and a member of congress in 1799-1801, having been chosen as a Democrat. In the latter year he was sent to the United States senate, but he resigned in 1807 to become judge of the state supreme court. He was governor of North Carolina in 1808-'10, and in the two following years sat again in congress. In 1813 he was again sent to the United States senate by a legislature whose majority supported the measures of President Madison and the war with England; but, opposing these measures, he was censured by the legislature, and resigned the following year.