Norman R. Stone Jr. | |
Birth Date: | 8 September 1935 |
Birth Place: | Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. |
Death Place: | Annapolis, Maryland, U.S. |
State Senate: | Maryland |
District: | 6th |
Term Start: | 2003 |
Term End: | 2015 |
Predecessor: | Michael J. Collins |
Successor: | Johnny Ray Salling |
State Senate2: | Maryland |
District2: | 7th |
Term Start2: | 1983 |
Term End2: | 2003 |
Predecessor2: | Dennis F. Rasmussen |
Successor2: | Andy Harris |
State Senate3: | Maryland |
District3: | 6th |
Term Start3: | 1967 |
Term End3: | 1983 |
Predecessor3: | John Carroll Byrnes and J. Joseph Curran, Jr. |
Successor3: | F. Vernon Boozer |
Office4: | Member of the Maryland House of Delegates from Baltimore County |
Term Start4: | 1963 |
Term End4: | 1967 |
Predecessor4: | Charles F. Culver |
Successor4: | Constituency Abolished |
Party: | Democrat |
Occupation: | Attorney |
Spouse: | JoAnne R. Stone |
Children: | 4 |
Norman R. Stone Jr. (September 8, 1935 – June 16, 2023) was an American politician and the longest-serving Senator in the Maryland State Senate. He held the distinction of being the only Maryland State Senator to have voted against both repealing the ban on interracial marriage, and permitting same-sex marriage. Stone served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1963 to 1967.[1] He was first elected to the State Senate in 1966. Stone was a member of the Maryland General Assembly for more than 50 years. Stone was a graduate of the Baltimore City College High School and the University of Baltimore Law School.[2]
In June 2012, Stone was appointed by Maryland legislative leaders to a task force to study the impact of a Maryland Court of Appeals ruling regarding the liability of owners of pit bulls and landlords that rent to them.[5]
Stone died at the Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Maryland on June 16, 2023. He was 87.[6]