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STANLEY MATTHEWS
was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on July 21, 1824. After
graduation from Kenyon College in 1840, he read law in
Cincinnati. He moved to Maury County, Tennessee, and was
admitted to the bar at the age of eighteen. Two years
alter, Matthews returned to Cincinnati, where he was appointed
Assistant Prosecuting Attorney for Hamilton County. From
1851 to 1853, he served as a Judge of the Hamilton County
Court of Common Pleas. Matthews was elected to the Ohio
Senate in 1855, and in 1858 he was appointed United States
Attorney for Southern Ohio. Matthews served as a volunteer
in the Union Army during the Civil War but resigned his
commission in 1863 when he was elected a Judge of the
Superior Court of Cincinnati. Two years later, he returned
to private practice. In 1877, he served as Counsel to
the Hayes-Tilden Electoral Commission, and later that
year, he was appointed United States Senator from Ohio
to fill a vacancy. President Rutherford B. Hayes nominated
Matthews to the Supreme Court of the United States on
January 26, 1881, but the Senate took no action on his
confirmation. Renominated by President James A. Garfield
on March 14, 1881, Matthews was confirmed by the Senate
on May 12, 1881. Matthews died on March 22, 1889, at the
age of sixty-four. |
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