Thomas Porcher Stoney, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American politician
Date of Birth: 16-Dec-1889
Place of Birth: Goose Creek, South Carolina, United States
Date of Death: 22-Apr-1973
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Sagittarius 
About Thomas Porcher Stoney
- Thomas Porcher Stoney was the fifty-third mayor of Charleston, South Carolina, serving between 1923 and 1931. Stoney graduated from the University of South Carolina School of Law in 1911 and began a private law practice in Charleston, South Carolina.
- In 1915, he was elected solicitor (prosecutor) for the Ninth Judicial Circuit, the youngest solicitor elected at that time.
- He remained in that office until 1923 when he was elected mayor of Charleston.
- He was re-elected in 1927 and completed that term.
- One of his major accomplishments as mayor was the creation of a municipal airport; the original site was on James Island, but it was moved to the present location in 1929.
- His administration also oversaw the construction of recreational facilities; the municipal golf course was laid out, William Moultrie Playground was opened, and Johnson Hagood Stadium (then a municipal facility, but today the football stadium for The Citadel) was built. 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.
- During his life he swung across the political spectrum.
- He was a solid democrat in his early political life, but grew disaffected with the New Deal.
- 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." By 1964 he campaigned for Barry Goldwater, saying that the Democratic Party was "set upon a course that is hell-bent for national socialism." Stoney died on April 22, 1973.
- He was struck while walking across a road.
- The driver left the scene of the accident and was never found.
- The once stately Charleston gentleman died at the tragic accident scene.
- Stoney was born at Medway Plantation on December 16, 1889, in rural Berkeley County, South Carolina to Samuel Stoney and Eliza Croft Stoney.
- He is buried at Strawberry Chapel in Berkeley County, South Carolina.
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