Thomas E. Stone (July 31, 1869 – June 26, 1959) was an American civil servant who served as Chief Usher of the White House in Washington, D.C., from 1901 and 1909.

Beginning in 1912, Stone worked as an Internal Revenue agent for the United States Department of the Treasury, where he won national acclaim for breaking major crime rings and capturing individuals who had fled from justice.

He was the third of eight children, and a descendant of Thomas Stone (an American planter and lawyer who signed the United States Declaration of Independence as a delegate for Maryland and later worked on the committee that formed the Articles of Confederation in 1777).

[4][3] Stone personally served as a conductor on the first Pullman railroad car journey ever taken by William McKinley after he became President of the United States in 1897.

[6] Stone subsequently traveled with the McKinleys on their long cross-continent trip to San Francisco in the summer of 1901.

[8][9] Dubois' health did not improve, however, and in late December 1901 he asked to be transferred to an executive branch department.

[14] Stone left the Chief Usher's position on March 5, 1909, when he was appointed Doorkeeper to the President of the United States.

[16] Stone left the White House in 1912 due to poor health, and became an Internal Revenue agent with a roving commission with the United States Department of the Treasury.

[2] When Prohibition took effect, it was initially enforced by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in the Department of the Treasury.

[21] When mass corruption was uncovered in the Wisconsin district in 1924, Stone left Atlanta and was appointed Acting Director of Prohibition for the state, where he remained at least until the end of the year.

[24] In 1928, Stone spent $400,000 on enforcement but imposed fines of more than $1 million for illegal liquor production and sales, and alcohol smuggling in the state dropped by two-thirds.

[24][3] As part of his work as Supervisory Prohibition Agent in Baltimore, Stone was in charge of issuing alcohol withdrawal permits.