Clinton Warrington Stanley (1830 - 1884)
Born at Hopkinton (NH); died at Manchester (NH).
Lawyer, jurist.
Portrait by U.D. Tenney, 1889.
Presented to the State, 1890.

Stanley graduated from Dartmouth College at age nineteen (Class of 1849). He studied law for two years with H.E. Perkins (Hopkinton, NH), then moved to Manchester (NH) and completed his studies at the law offices of G. W. Morrison. He was admitted to the New Hampshire Bar in 1852 and practiced law for one year at Hopkinton. Then he returned to Manchester and became a law partner of Mr. Morrison.

The firm of Morrison & Stanley was a major Manchester law firm for more than twenty years, with much local government business throughout the state. Stanley prospered, and his fiscal skills were recognized when he was named first president of the new City National Bank in 1865. Stanley served in that capacity until 1879.

In 1874 the state's judicial system was reorganized and Stanley was named a judge on the new Circuit Court. When the judicial system was returned to its former format barely two years later (August 1876), Stanley was retained as the senior Associate Justice on New Hampshire Superior Court. He held the position until his death in 1884.

Reference: Charles H. Bell, The Bench and Bar of New Hampshire (1894).