Stanley Matthews

1824–1889 · Cincinnati, OH

Judicial Service

CourtTitleAppointed ByCommissionedTermination
Supreme Court of the United StatesAssociate JusticeJames A. Garfield (Republican)May 12, 1881Death, Mar 22, 1889

Education

  • Kenyon College, B.A., 1840
  • Read law, 1842

Professional 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

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