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.
Stanley Matthews
Supreme Court of the United States
Born 1824 in Cincinnati, OH
Died 1889 in Washington, DC
FJC ID: 1507
- Gender
- Male
- Race
- White
Prior employment
- U.S. senator from Ohio1877–1881
- Private practice, Cincinnati, Ohio1844–1851, 1853–1858, 1865–1877
- Counsel for Rutherford B. Hayes before congressional electoral commission1876
- Superior Court of Cincinnati [Ohio]Judge · 1863–1865
- Fifty-First Ohio Volunteers colonel1862–1863
- Twenty-Third Ohio Infantry lieutenant colonel1861–1862
U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Ohio1858–1861- OhioState senator · 1855–1857
- Hamilton County [Ohio] Court of Common PleasJudge · 1851–1853
- Ohio General AssemblyClerk · 1848–1851
- Private practice, Columbia, Tennessee1842–1844
- Tennessee DemocratEditor · 1842–1844
Appointments
1881–1889 · Appointed by James A. Garfield (Republican)Term ended: Death
Education
- Read law1842
- Kenyon CollegeB.A. · 1840