Richard Stockton Field

Richard Stockton Field (born December 31, 1803 in White Hall , Burlington County , New Jersey - † May 25, 1870 in Princeton , New Jersey) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of New Jersey in the US Senate represented.

Richard Stockton Field came from a well-known family of politicians. His grandfather Richard Stockton was a delegate to the Continental Congress , his uncle Richard Stockton also sat for New Jersey in the Senate from 1796 to 1799 and was the Federalist candidate for the office of Vice President in 1820 .

After moving to Princeton with his mother in 1810, Field completed an academic education and graduated from the College of New Jersey , now Princeton University , in 1821 . As a result, he studied law , was admitted to the bar in 1825 and began to practice in Salem . From 1832 he lived again in Princeton. Field had his first political mandate in 1837 as a member of the New Jersey House of Representatives ; from 1838 to 1841 he was Attorney General of the state. He took part in the New Jersey Constitutional Convention in 1844 and was a lecturer at Princeton Law School in 1847 .

After the death of US Senator John Renshaw Thomson on September 12, 1862, Richard Stockton Field was appointed his successor in Congress . He took his mandate in Washington, DC from November 21 of the same year and exercised it until January 14, 1863, when he was replaced by James Walter Wall , who was victorious in the by-election . Field resigned from the Senate and was appointed judge in the federal district court for the district of New Jersey by US President Abraham Lincoln that same year . He remained in this post until his death in 1870.

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SURNAME	Field, Richard Stockton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American politician (Republican Party)
DATE OF BIRTH	December 31, 1803
PLACE OF BIRTH	White Hall , Burlington County , New Jersey
DATE OF DEATH	May 25, 1870
Place of death	Princeton , New Jersey