- At the time of his death, he had three children and five grandchildren.
- Appointed by President-elect Ronald Reagan to Reagan's presidential transition team the day after the 1980 general election victory over President Jimmy Carter.
- Returning to Florida, he was admitted to the Florida Bar in 1955, and commenced the practice of law in Miami.
- In 2018, Richard Stone's son Elliot endowed the Senator Richard B. Stone Public Policy Scholarship at Florida International University to honor his father's work and career.
- He attended Columbia Law School in Manhattan, New York City, New York, receiving his LL.B. degree in 1954.
- Stone graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) degree, from Harvard College, summa cum laude in 1949.
- Stone was the second U.S. Senator from Florida of Jewish descent (after David Levy Yulee, who served two non-consecutive terms in the U.S. Senate, from 1845-1851 and 1855-1861) and the first since before the U.S. Civil War.
- He was most commonly known as Richard B. Stone.
- His parents moved to Miami, Dade County, Florida, USA when he was a baby, and where he attended and graduated Dade County public schools.
- At the time of his death, he resided in Chevy Chase, Maryland, a suburb of Washington, D.C.
- His father Alfred, and his uncle Nathan, were builder/developers, originally from Belgium, and the family name was an approximation of Blackstone, but was changed to Stone upon immigration to the USA. In the first half of the 20th Century, most of the hotels on Miami Beach would not admit Jews, so the family moved to Miami when Richard Stone was an infant, and with backing from the Jewish community in New York City, the Stone brothers acquired a piece of land, and built The Blackstone Hotel at 830 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach. The hotel was designed by architect B. Kingston Hall in 1929. Nathan Stone was the developer and built this 13 story hotel in the Mediterranean Revival style. In 1929, the Blackstone Hotel was the tallest structure on the Beach and served as a monumental, elegant design in a resort town of low-rise structures.
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