He had at least four brothers who survived into the 1960s, including T. Clarence Stone, who would serve in both houses of the North Carolina legislature and likewise active in opposing civil rights activists.
Upon returning home, he was active in his Presbyterian church, the Kiwanis, and the Virginia Bar, being elected its vice president in 1953 and serving on its board of law examiners beginning in 1955.
[2] When state senator Frank P. Burton died in 1957, Stone ran for the seat, and was elected, thus representing the district which included Danville, Martinsville as well as Henry, Patrick and Pittsylvania Counties along with incumbent Landon R.
The Speaker of the House of Delegates appointed John B. Boatwright to chair the new Committee on Offenses against the Administration of Justice, with Stone and J. J. Williams Jr. as members; the President of the Virginia Senate appointed two additional members, E. Almer Ames Jr. of Onancock and Earl A. Fitzpatrick of Roanoke (who became Vice-Chairman).
In March, the Boatwright Committee opined that various segregationist organizations did not commit the newly expanded legal offenses of champerty, maintenance, barratry, running and capping, nor the unauthorized practice of law.
[4] The subpoenas and other activities soon reduced NAACP membership in Virginia by half, but two years later (with Stone remaining on the committee after his elevation to the senate) the committee issued another report and Boatwright complained that the Virginia State Bar was not punishing those lawyers but instead spending $5000 on a Jamestown commemoration and $6350 on a new continuing legal education program.