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Stanley Matthews

Born 7/21/1824 · Died 3/22/1889

Judicial Career

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    5/12/1881 – 3/22/1889

Biography

Thomas Stanley Matthews, known as Stanley Matthews in adulthood, was an American attorney, soldier, judge and senator from Ohio who became an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, serving from May 1881 to his death in 1889. A Republican politician and progressive justice, he was the author of the landmark rulings Yick Wo v. Hopkins and Ex parte Crow Dog.

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