T. Clarence Stone

He graduated from Stoneville High School in 1914 and subsequently attended Davidson College, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in 1919.

While there he befriended and closely collaborated with Representative John W. Umstead Jr.[4] On July 1, 1941 he was, following appointment, sworn-in as a member of the Unemployment Compensation Commission of North Carolina.

[9] He had a poor relationship with the press, and banned journalists from standing on the floor of the Senate in the North Carolina State Legislative Building, forcing them to sit in the gallery.

[10] He and other legislators and state officials laid out a plan to censure UNC Chapel Hill by passing a law that banned communists from speaking on the campuses of public universities.

[11] On the afternoon of June 25, late in the 1963 legislative session, the Speaker Ban Bill was introduced in the House and quickly declared passed.

When Robert B. Morgan expressed his concern that the bill had wide-ranging legal implications that members of the body would not grasp, Stone interjected, "It seems like a good 'un to me.

"[13] After Perry Martin finished his objections, Stone called for a final voice vote on the bill, despite three other legislators standing up to be recognized, and ruled that it had passed.

The Senate later held a recall vote to stop the ratification of the bill, but it failed to garner the support of the necessary two-thirds of the body.

[4] On January 6, 1969 he was admitted to the UNC Medical Center in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, suffering from hemorrhaging ulcers.