The Library of Congress > LCCN Permalink

View this record in:  MARCXML | LC Authorities & Vocabularies | VIAF (Virtual International Authority File)External Link

Matthews, Stanley, 1824-1889

LC control no.n 85363516
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingMatthews, Stanley, 1824-1889
    Browse this term in  LC Authorities  or the  LC Catalog
Variant(s)Matthews, Thomas Stanley, 1824-1889
Other standard no.50687620
0000000025173646
Associated countryUnited States
Birth date1824-07-21
Death date1889-03-22
Place of birthCincinnati (Ohio)
Place of deathWashington (D.C.)
Field of activityLaw
Journalism
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Politics
AffiliationOhio. General Assembly. House of Representatives
Ohio. General Assembly. Senate
United States. District Court (Ohio : Southern District)
United States. Congress. Senate
United States. Supreme Court
United States. Army. Ohio Infantry Regiment, 23rd (1861-1865)
Profession or occupationLawyers
Judges
Newspaper editors
Politicians
Soldiers
Found inHis The function of the legal profession ... 1881: title page (Stanley Matthews)
MoSU-L/NLT files (heading: Matthews, Stanley, 1824-1889)
Wikipedia website, viewed September 27, 2016 (born Thomas Stanley Matthews on July 21, 1824 in Cincinnati, Ohio; died March 22, 1889 in Washington, D.C.; attended Kenyon College and practiced law in Cincinnati; edited the Cincinnati herald for two years from 1846 to 1848; selected to serve as the clerk of the Ohio House of Representatives and as a county judge in Hamilton County; elected to the Ohio State Senate, where he served in 1856 and 1857; then appointed as the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio, serving from 1858 to 1861; resigned to serve as a lieutenant colonel with the 23rd Ohio Infantry regiment of the Union Army during the American Civil War; resigned from the Union Army on April 11, 1863; filled a vacancy in the United States Senate from the state of Ohio 1877 to 1879; confirmed as an Associate Justice on the U.S. Supreme Court, serving from May 12, 1881 until his death in 1889)
Associated languageeng