Background
Stone was born in Charles County, Maryland, and graduated from Saint John's College of Annapolis, Maryland in 1839.
United States representative lawyer politician
Stone was born in Charles County, Maryland, and graduated from Saint John's College of Annapolis, Maryland in 1839.
He studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1841, beginning practice in Portuguese Tobacco, Maryland.
He was appointed by the legislature in 1852 as one of the commissioners to revise the rules of pleading and practice in the State courts. Stone was the grandson of Michael J. Stone, the younger brother of Thomas Stone, a signer of the Declaration of Independence. During the Abraham Lincoln assassination trial in May & June 1865, Frederick Stone and Thomas Ewing, Junior. appeared as defense counsels for Doctor Samuel Mudd and David Herold.
Their defense is generally credited with helping Doctor Mudd avoid the death penalty.
He died at Idaho, his country home near Louisiana Plata, Maryland in 1899, and is interred in Mount Rest Cemetery of Louisiana Plata.
Stone was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates in 1864 and 1865, and was elected as a Democrat to the Fortieth and Forty-first Congresses (serving March 4, 1867 – March 3, 1871). He was a member of the Constitutional convention of 1867 for Charles County.