Background

Field was the great-grandson of Richard Stockton (1730-1781), New Jersey Delegate to the Continental Congress, and the grandson of Richard Stockton (1764-1828), United States Senator from New Jersey. Born in White Hall, Burlington County, New Jersey, Field 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.

Education

Graduated from College of New Jersey (now Princeton), 1821, honorary Doctor of Laws, 1859.

Career

He read law and was admitted to the bar in 1825, commencing private practice in Salem, New Jersey. 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. He was not a candidate for election in 1863.

Instead, Field was nominated by President Abraham Lincoln on January 14, 1863, to a seat on the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey vacated by Philemon Dickerson.

Field was confirmed by the United States Senate, and received commission, on the same day that he was nominated. He served on the court until his resignation, on April 25, 1870, one month before his death.

He died in Princeton, New Jersey and was buried in Princeton Cemetery.

Achievements

• Richard Stockton Field has been listed as a reputable senator, jurist by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • The Provincial Courts of New Jersey: With Sketches of the Bench and Bar; A Discourse, Read Before the New Jersey Historical Society (Classic Reprint)

    (Excerpt from The Provincial Courts of New Jersey: With Sk...)

  • The Provincial Courts of New Jersey - Scholar's Choice Edition

    ( This work has been selected by scholars as being cultur...)

  • The Provincial Courts of New: Jersey; With Sketches of the Bench and Bar; A Discourse Read Before the New Jersey Historical Society (Classic Reprint)

    (The following Paper was prepared at the request of the Ex...)

  • The Provincial Courts of New Jersey

    (This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curat...)

  • The Provincial Courts of New Jersey, with Sketches of the Bench and Bar

    (This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curat...)

  • The Provincial Courts of New: Jersey, With Sketches of the Bench and Bar a Discourse a Discourse, Read Before the New Jersey Historical (Classic Reprint)

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  • The Provincial Courts of New Jersey: With Sketches of the Bench and Bar. V. 3

Membership

He moved to Princeton, New Jersey, in 1832, and served as a New Jersey state representative from 1833 to 1834, and as 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 from 1847 to 1855, thereafter returning to private practice.

Connections

Married Mary Ritchie, 1831.

Father:

Robert Field

Mother:

Abigail (Stockton) Field

Spouse:

Mary Ritchie