Stanley Matthews

Judge Stanley Matthews

Personal

Birthday:

7/21/1824

Birthplace:

Cincinnati, OH

Date of Death:

3/22/1889

Place of Death:

Washington, DC

Race or Ethnicity:

White

Gender:

Male

Prior Employment:

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

Nominated to Supreme Court of the United States, January 26, 1881; no Senate vote

Education

Name of School:

Kenyon College

Degree:

B.A.

Degree Year:

1840

Name of School - Second:

Read law

Degree Year - Second:

1842

Judicial Career

Court Name:

Supreme Court of the United States

Court Name:

Supreme Court of the United States

President Nominating:

James A. Garfield

Party Affiliation of President:

Republican

Commission Date:

05/12/1881

Termination Date:

03/22/1889

Termination Reason:

Death

Bankruptcy and Magistrate Services:

Allotment as Circuit Justice:
Sixth Circuit, May 17, 1881-March 22, 1889