Claudius Ulysses Stone was a United States. Representative from Illinois.
Education
Born on a farm in Menard County, near Greenview, Illinois, Stone attended the rural school and Western Normal College, Bushnell, Illinois. He studied law at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and at George Washington University, Washington, District of Columbia
Career
He was the principal of Brimfield (Illinois) Public Schools for two years. During the Spanish–American War, he served as a corporal in Company K, Fourth Illinois Volunteer Infantry, from May 1898 to May 1899 with service in Cuba. Stone was elected county superintendent of schools for Peoria County, Illinois, in 1902, reelected in 1906, and served until 1910.
He served as president of the Association of County Superintendents of Schools of Illinois in 1909.
He was admitted to the bar in 1909 and commenced practice in Peoria, Illinois. Stone was elected as a Democrat to the Sixty-second, Sixty-third, and Sixty-fourth Congresses (March 4, 1911 – March 3, 1917).
He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1916 to the Sixty-fifth Congress. He was the postmaster of Peoria from 1917 until he resigned in October 1920 to practice law.
He served as master in chancery of the circuit court of Peoria County, Illinois from June 5, 1928, to January 20, 1945.
He was editor and publisher of the Peoria Star from 1938 until 1949. He died in Peoria, Illinois, November 13, 1957. He was interred in Parkview Memorial Cemetery.