Richard Gordon Stockton was born in Winston-Salem in 1892. He was the son of Madison Doughty and Martha Vaughn Stockton.
Stockton attended the local schools, and graduated from UNC with a bachelor of arts degree. The following year he earned his law degree and was admitted to the North Carolina Bar.
He began his law practice in Winston-Salem, taking an occasional break for further study in law at UNC and Columbia University Law School.
During World War I he worked in the Judge Advocate General’s Office of the U. S. Army. After the war he returned to Winston-Salem and practiced law until 1922, when he joined Wachovia Bank and Trust Company as secretary and trust officer.
At Wachovia he held several management positions, and retired in 1958 as an officer of the bank.
Stockton was active in community affairs, and among his many roles, he was chairman of the trustees of the Forsyth County Tuberculosis Hospital, president of the YMCA, trustee for Greensboro College, president of the Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce, and a member of the board and president of the Methodist Children’s Home. One of the cottages on the Children’s Home campus is named in his honor.
Stockton was married to Hortense Haughton Jones Stockton. He passed away in 1960.
