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See also:MATTHEWS, See also:STANLEY (1824-1889) , See also:American jurist, was See also:born in See also:Cincinnati, See also:Ohio, on the 21st of See also:July 1824. He graduated from See also:Kenyon See also:College in 1840, studied See also:law, and in 1842 was admitted to the See also:bar of See also:Maury See also:county, See also:Tennessee. In 1844 he became assistant prosecuting See also:attorney of See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton county, Ohio; and in 1846-1849 edited a See also:short-lived See also:anti-See also:slavery See also:paper, the Cincinnati See also:Herald. He was clerk of the Ohio See also:House of Representatives in 1848-1849, a See also:judge of See also:common pleas of Hamilton county in 1850-1853, See also:state senator in 1856-1858, and U.S. See also:district-attorney for the See also:southern district of Ohio in 1858-1861. First a Whig and then a See also:Free-Soiler, he joined the Republican party in 1861. After the outbreak of the See also:Civil See also:War he was commissioned a See also:lieutenant of the 23rd Ohio, of which See also:Rutherford B. See also:Hayes was See also:major; but saw service only with the 57th Ohio, of which he was See also:colonel, and with a See also:brigade which he commanded in the See also:Army of the See also:Cumberland. He resigned from the army in 1863, and was judge of the Cincinnati See also:superior See also:court in 1863-1864. He was a Republican presidential elector in 1864 and 1868. In 1872 he joined the Liberal Republican See also:movement, and was temporary chairman of the Cincinnati See also:convention which nominated See also:Horace See also:Greeley for the See also:presidency, but in the See also:campaign he supported See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant. In 1877, as counsel before the Electoral See also:Commission, he opened the See also:argument for the Republican See also:electors of See also:Florida and made the See also:principal argument for the Republican electors of See also:Oregon. In See also:March of the same See also:year he succeeded See also:John See also:Sherman as senator from Ohio, and served until March 1879. In 1881 See also:President Hayes nominated him as See also:associate See also:justice of the Supreme Court, to succeed See also:Noah H. Swayne; there was much opposition, especially in the See also:press, to this See also:appointment, because Matthews had been a prominent railway and See also:corporation lawyer and had been one of the Republican " visiting statesmen" who witnessed the See also:canvass of the See also:vote of See also:Louisiana' in 1876; and the nomination had not been approved when the session of See also:Congress expired. Matthews was renominated by President See also:Garfield on the 15th of March, and the nomination was confirmed by the See also:Senate (22 for, 21 against) on the 12th of
' It seems certain that Matthews and See also:Charles See also:Foster of Ohio gave their written promise that Hayes, if elected, would recognize the Democratic See also:governors in Louisiana and See also:South Carolina.
May. He was an honest, impartial and conscientious judge. He died in See also:Washington, on the 22nd of March 1889.
End of Article: MATTHEWS, STANLEY (1824-1889)
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