Richard Stockton Field

Richard Stockton Field

Infobox Senator
name = Richard Stockton Field


width =
jr/sr = Junior Senator
state = New Jersey
party = Republican
term = November 21, 1862 – January 14, 1863
preceded = John Renshaw Thomson
succeeded = John C. Ten Eyck
office2 = New Jersey Attorney General
term2 = 1838-1841
preceded2 =
succeeded2 =
date of birth = birth date|1803|12|31
place of birth = White Hall
date of death = death date and age|1870|05|25|1803|12|31
place of death = Princeton, New Jersey
spouse =
profession = Lawyer, Politician
religion =
footnotes =

Richard Stockton Field (December 31, 1803 – May 25, 1870) was a US Senator from New Jersey. Field was the grandson of Richard Stockton (1730-1781), New Jersey Delegate to the Continental Congress, and the son of Richard Stockton (1764-1828), US Senator from New Jersey.

Born at White Hall, Burlington County, New Jersey; moved to Princeton, New Jersey with his mother in 1810; pursued an academic course and graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1821; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1825 and commenced practice in Salem, New Jersey; moved to Princeton, N.J., in 1832. Field was a member of the New Jersey General Assembly in 1837, and served as New Jersey Attorney General from 1838-1841. He was a member of the State constitutional convention of 1844, and a professor at the Princeton Law School in 1847.

Field was appointed as a Republican to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of John R. Thomson and served from November 21, 1862, to January 14, 1863, when a successor was elected; was not a candidate for election in 1863; appointed by President Abraham Lincoln judge of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey 1863-1870. He died in Princeton, New Jersey and was buried in Princeton Cemetery.

External links

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* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/field-fielding.html#R9M0IWPCT Richard Stockton Field] at The Political Graveyard
*Findagrave|7743765


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