Thomas Stanley Matthews (July 21, 1824 – March 22, 1889), generally known in adulthood as Stanley Matthews, was a Republican politician and jurist from Ohio. He served in the U.S. Senate and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Matthews was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and studied at Kenyon College. He practiced law in Cincinnati and in Maury County, Tennessee from 1840 to 1845. After editing the Cincinnati Herald from 1...
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Thomas Stanley Matthews (July 21, 1824 – March 22, 1889), generally known in adulthood as Stanley Matthews, was a Republican politician and jurist from Ohio. He served in the U.S. Senate and as an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States.
Matthews was born in Cincinnati, Ohio and studied at Kenyon College. He practiced law in Cincinnati and in Maury County, Tennessee from 1840 to 1845. After editing the Cincinnati Herald from 1846-1848, Matthews served as the clerk of the Ohio House of Representatives and a county judge in Hamilton County, Ohio. He was then elected to the Ohio State Senate, where he served in 1856 and 1857. He was then appointed as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, serving from 1858 to 1861.
In 1861, Matthews resigned as U.S. Attorney to serve as a lieutenant colonel with the 23rd Ohio Infantry of the Union Army during the American Civil War.
Matthews ran for the United States House of Representatives in 1876, but was defeated. A...
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