Norman R. Stone Jr.

Norman R. Stone Jr.
Norman R. Stone Jr.
Member of the Maryland State Senate from District 6
	In office; 2003–2015
Preceded by	Michael J. Collins
Succeeded by	Johnny Ray Salling
Member of the Maryland State Senate from District 7
	In office; 1983–2003
Preceded by	Dennis F. Rasmussen
Succeeded by	Andy Harris
Member of the Maryland State Senate from District 9
	In office; 1967–1983
Preceded by	John Carroll Byrnes and J. Joseph Curran, Jr.
Succeeded by	F. Vernon Boozer
Member of the Maryland House of Delegates from Baltimore County
	In office; 1963–1967
Preceded by	Charles F. Culver
Succeeded by	Constituency Abolished
Personal details
Born	September 8, 1935; Baltimore, Maryland
Political party	Democratic
Spouse(s)	JoAnne R. Stone
Children	4
Residence	Baltimore County, Maryland
Occupation	Attorney

Norman R. Stone Jr. (born September 8, 1935) is an American politician and the longest-serving senator in the Maryland State Senate and the only Senator to have voted against repealing the bans on interracial marriage and 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 has been a member of the Maryland General Assembly for more than 50 years. Stone is a graduate of the Baltimore City College High School and the University of Baltimore Law School.[2]

Career

Legislative Notes

February 9, 1967 - voted against repealing law banning interracial marriage in Maryland.[3]
February 23, 2012 - voted against the "Civil Marriage Protection Act", which would allow same-sex couples to obtain a marriage license in Maryland.[4][5]

Task Force, Boards and Commissions

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.[6]

gollark: I'm not sure I would trust my brain to computers in any case, given the horrible security record of... most complex computer systems... which will likely only get worse as complexity increases. Though I suppose my foolish organic brain has its own (probably not remotely exploitable, at least?) security flaws.

gollark: SSDs are pretty dense. They're just expensive.

gollark: Hopefully brains parallelize well.

gollark: Maybe. Growth in computing power has slowed lately.

gollark: I think people have (obviously very roughly) estimated that you would need something like an exabyte of storage and exaflop of processing power to run a brain.

References

http://mdhospitals.capwiz.com/bio/id/4272
http://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/05sen/html/msa12133.html
Baltimore Sun: Senate Rejects Ban on Marriage - Feb 1967 Washington Post. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
Roll call on Maryland Senate’s vote to approve gay marriage bill Washington Post. Retrieved February 24, 2012.
See Maryland Question 6 (2012)
"Pitbull Panel Looks to One Standard for All Breeds". Baltimore Sun. 2012. Retrieved June 20, 2012.

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[1] ttp://mdhospitals.capwiz.com/bio/id/4272

[2] ttp://www.msa.md.gov/msa/mdmanual/05sen/html/msa12133.html

[3] Baltimore Sun: Senate Rejects Ban on Marriage - Feb 1967 Washington Post. Retrieved February 24, 2012.

[4] Roll call on Maryland Senate’s vote to approve gay marriage bill Washington Post. Retrieved February 24, 2012.

[5] See Maryland Question 6 (2012)

[6] "Pitbull Panel Looks to One Standard for All Breeds". Baltimore Sun. 2012. Retrieved June 20, 2012.