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. Born: July 21, 1824 Died: March 22, 1889 In office: May 12, 1881 – March 22, 1889 Wiki link