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'''Matthias Evans Manly''' (1801–1881) was a jurist who served as a justice of the [[North Carolina Supreme Court]] from 1860 to 1865.  He was the brother of North Carolina Governor [[Charles Manly]] and the son-in-law of state Supreme Court Judge [[William Gaston]].<ref>[https://books.google.com/books?id=JcyyAAAAMAAJ&q=%22william+gaston%22&pg=PA418 Catholicity in the Carolinas and Georgia]</ref>

Manly graduated from the [[University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill]] (where he would later serve as a Trustee) in 1824.  He practiced law in [[New Bern, North Carolina]], was elected to the [[North Carolina House of Commons]] for a term, and served as a [[North Carolina Superior Court]] judge for approximately twenty years, before being named to the Supreme Court.<ref>[http://www.ncpedia.org/biography/manly-matthias-evans NCpedia]</ref>  He filled the seat left vacant by Justice [[Thomas Ruffin]]'s second retirement.

Shortly after the end of the Civil War, Manly was forced to give up his seat on the Supreme Court but was elected in 1866 to the [[North Carolina Senate]], where he served as [[Speaker of the North Carolina Senate|Speaker]].  The state legislature elected Manly to the [[United States Senate]], but he was not allowed to take his seat. He later became mayor of New Bern.

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