Talk:Stanley Matthews (judge)

message: Where are we getting "Thomas" from?  The Congressional Biographical Directory and American National Biography just call him "Stanley Matthews". john k (talk) 03:47, 8 April 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: "Thomas Stanley Matthews" was his name at birth, and Matthews' original papers at the Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Center library contain correspondence addressed to him as "Thos S Matthews". According to a contemporary obituary/eulogy, "Thomas Stanley Matthews was born in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, July 21st, 1824.  His first name, used by him during his early boyhood, was dropped when he came to manhood, perhaps for the whimsical reason he gave to Governor Hoadly who had joked him about it, 'My father's name was Thomas and he opened my love letters,' perhaps for less cogent reasons." (Quoted from Stanley Matthews 1824-1889, by Charles Theodore Greve, of the Ohio Bar) Query whether this is worth mentioning in the article. Query further whether the article should be moved to "Stanley Matthews", although we would have to disambiguate (which we probably should do anyway) from Stanley Matthews, the soccer player. Newyorkbrad (talk) 02:45, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I think Stanley Matthews (judge) and Stanley Matthews (athlete), or some such, would be the best way to disambiguate. john k (talk) 23:42, 14 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Thomas? 

message: The suggestion at the bottom of the last thread (seven years ago!) is well-taken. Any objection to my moving this to Stanley Matthews (Justice)? Newyorkbrad (talk) 01:15, 11 May 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Disambiguation 

message: The article says he was confirmed 24 to 23 but says nothing about the total number of senators in 1881 and why the total was an odd number. Even more surprising is that even the article US Senate has no info on this topic. I had to search for quite a while to find in List_of_U.S._states_by_date_of_admission_to_the_Union that there were 38 states in 1881. So there were 76 senators, but only 47 voted. It's a sign of a possibly very badly written article that it says nothing about this, especially since the exceptionally low confirmation vote is the only reason almost all people look at this article. --Espoo (talk) 19:08, 9 July 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  missing essential info on confirmation vote 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Moved (non-admin closure)  BegbertBiggs (talk) 18:10, 6 December 2020 (UTC)
replies: text: Stanley Matthews (Supreme Court justice) →  – On closer investigation, the only reason we have any other article with "Supreme Court justice" as a disambiguator (that being David Davis (Supreme Court justice)) is that there are other judges named "David Davis". Here there is no other judge named "Stanley Matthews", so the more concise convention used in William Paterson (judge), William Johnson (judge), and Henry Baldwin (judge) should be used. BD2412 T 17:28, 29 November 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 29 November 2020