He later served two terms as prosecuting attorney himself, elected to the office first in 1892 and then re-elected in 1894, becoming the first lawyer from Warren County to fill the position in twenty-six years.
Stansbury served as an elector in the 1900 presidential election, representing Indiana’s Tenth District and casting his vote for William McKinley.
In 1917, Stansbury ran for Attorney General again and won, defeating Democratic incumbent Evan B. Stotsenburg (Milburn had died shortly after taking office).
Stansbury also challenged the abilities of country commissioners in Indiana to approve salary increases for school superintendents, declaring that the power to do so rested instead with town trustees.
Stansbury attempted to defend the partial suffrage law from Knight's challenge in the Marion County Superior Court, but after the case was appealed to the Indiana Supreme Court, the law was declared unconstitutional, causing women in Indiana to lose the right to vote mere months after they had gained it.
They had two children, a son (who practiced law with his father) and a daughter (who married Frank T. Stockton, Dean of the University of South Dakota).