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Stanley Matthews
Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States · 1881
Stanley Matthews , Associate Justice, Supreme Court of the United States. Thomas Stanley Matthews (July 21, 1824 – March 22, 1889), known as Stanley Matthews in adulthood, was an American attorney, soldier, judge and senator from Ohio who became an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from May 1881 to his death in 1889. A Republican politician and progressive justice, he was the author of the landmark rulings Yick Wo v. Hopkins and Ex parte Crow Dog.
Education
- Kenyon CollegeB.A., 1840
- Read law1842
Career
Private practice, Columbia, Tennessee, 1842-1844; Editor, Tennessee Democrat, 1842-1844; Private practice, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1844-1851, 1853-1858, 1865-1877; Clerk, Ohio General Assembly, 1848-1851; Judge, Hamilton County [Ohio] Court of Common Pleas, 1851-1853; State senator, Ohio, 1855-1857; U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, 1858-1861; Twenty-Third Ohio Infantry lieutenant colonel, 1861-1862; Fifty-First Ohio Volunteers colonel, 1862-1863; Judge, Superior Court of Cincinnati [Ohio], 1863-1865; Counsel for Rutherford B. Hayes before congressional electoral commission, 1876; U.S. senator from Ohio, 1877-1881
Biography
Thomas Stanley Matthews (July 21, 1824 – March 22, 1889), known as Stanley Matthews in adulthood, was an American attorney, soldier, judge and senator from Ohio who became an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from May 1881 to his death in 1889. A Republican politician and progressive justice, he was the author of the landmark rulings Yick Wo v. Hopkins and Ex parte Crow Dog.
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