James M. Stone (CFTC)
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James Munroe Stone (August 13, 1817 – December 19, 1880) was a U.S. labor reform advocate and
politician A politician is a person active in party politics, or a person holding or seeking an elected office in government. Politicians propose, support, reject and create laws that govern the land and by an extension of its people. Broadly speaking ...
who served as a member, and from 1866 to 1867, the Speaker of, the Massachusetts House of Representatives.


Newspaper publisher

In the early 1840s Stone published the Worcester based weekly newspaper the ''State Sentinel'', later the ''State Sentinel and Reformer''.


Labor reform advocate

Stone was a major advocate of labor reform in Massachusetts, he worked for years to pass the Ten Hour work day legislation in Massachusetts.


See also

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88th Massachusetts General Court (1867) The 88th Massachusetts General Court, consisting of the Massachusetts Senate and the Massachusetts House of Representatives, met in 1867 during the governorship of Republican Alexander Bullock. Joseph Adams Pond served as president of the Senate ...


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Speakers of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives Politicians from Boston Politicians from Worcester, Massachusetts Politicians from Lowell, Massachusetts 19th-century American newspaper editors 19th-century American newspaper publishers (people) American temperance activists 1817 births 1880 deaths American railroad executives 19th-century American politicians {{Massachusetts-MARepresentative-stub