Thomas Porcher Stoney was the fifty-third mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, serving between 1923 and 1931.
Stoney encouraged Clelia Peronneau Mathewes McGowan to become one of the first women City Alderman in Charleston.
His administration also oversaw the construction of recreational facilities; such as a golf course, a playground named for William Moultrie, and Johnson Hagood Stadium (then a municipal facility, but today the football stadium for The Citadel Bulldogs football team).
He ran for a United States Senate seat, but lost in the Democratic primary to James F. Byrnes in 1936 by a margin of about 10-to-1.
In 1936 he gave a speech about the New Deal and said, "[A]ll of this spending is like giving a drunk some drinks to sober him up.