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Stephen Johnson Field (November 4, 1816April 9, 1899) was an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court from May 20, 1863, to December 1, 1897. Prior to this, he was the 5th Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court. Image File history File links Stephen_Field. ... Image File history File links Stephen_Field. ... Jump to: navigation, search November 4 is the 308th day of the year (309th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 57 days remaining. ... 1816 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar). ... April 9 is the 99th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (100th in leap years). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1899 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C. The Supreme Court Building, Washington, D.C., (large image) The Supreme Court of the United States, located in Washington, D.C., is the highest court (see supreme court) in the United States; that is, it has ultimate judicial authority within the United States... Jump to: navigation, search 20 May is the 140th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (141st in leap years). ... 1863 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... Jump to: navigation, search December 1 is the 335th (in leap years the 336th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... The Supreme Court of California is the state supreme court in California. ...


Born in Haddam, Connecticut, he was the sixth of the nine children of David Dudley Field, a Congregationalist minister, and his wife Submit Dickinson. He grew up in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and went to Turkey at thirteen with his sister and her missionary husband. He graduated from Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, in 1837. After studying law in New York City with his brother David Dudley Field, they practiced law together until 1848 when he went west to California in the Gold Rush. There his legal practice boomed and he was the mayor of Marysville. The voters sent him to the California Assembly in 1850, but lost a race the next year for the California Senate. His successful legal practice led to his election to the California Supreme Court in 1857, serving six years. Haddam is a town located in Middlesex County, Connecticut. ... Congregational churches are Protestant Christian churches practicing congregationalist church governance, in which each congregation indepedently and autonomously runs its own affairs. ... Stockbridge is a town located in Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts. ... Jump to: navigation, search Williams College is a small, private liberal arts college located in Williamstown, Massachusetts. ... Williamstown is a town located in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. ... 1837 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... David Dudley Field (February 13, 1805 - April 13, 1894) was an American lawyer and law reformer. ... 1848 is a leap year starting on Saturday (link will take you to calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Golden State Other U.S. States Capital Sacramento Largest city Los Angeles Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger (R) Senators Dianne Feinstein (D) Barbara Boxer (D) Official languages English Area 410,000 km² (3rd)  - Land 404,298 km²  - Water 20,047 km² (4. ... Gold rush ad A gold rush is a period of feverish migration of workers into the area of a dramatic discovery of commercial quantities of gold. ... Marysville is the county seat of Yuba County, California, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 12,268. ... The California State Assembly is the lower house of the California State Legislature. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1850 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The California State Senate is the upper house of the California State Legislature. ... The Supreme Court of California is the state supreme court in California. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ...


Abraham Lincoln appointed him to the newly created tenth Supreme Court seat, to achieve both regional balance (he was a Westerner) and political balance (he was a Democrat, but a Unionist one). It would also give the Court someone familiar with real estate and mining issues. Jump to: navigation, search Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865), sometimes called Abe Lincoln and nicknamed Honest Abe, the Rail Splitter, and the Great Emancipator, was the 16th President of the United States (1861 to 1865), and the first president from the Republican Party. ...


He was a vocal proponent of the substantive due process theory that protected property rights from regulation under the Fourteenth Amendment--as illustrated in his dissents to the Slaughterhouse Cases and Munn v. Illinois. Field's views, which were not so much grounded in the Constitution's text as his views of natural law, were eventually adopted by the court's majority, but only after his death. However, he helped end the income tax (Pollock v. Farmers' Loan and Trust Company), limit anti-trust law (United States v. E.C. Knight), and the power of the Interstate Commerce Commission. Due process of law is a legal concept that ensures the government will respect all of a persons legal rights instead of just some or most of those legal rights, when the government deprives a person of life, liberty, or property. ... This page deals with property as ownership rights. ... Jump to: navigation, search Amendment XIV (the Fourteenth Amendment) of the United States Constitution is one of the post-Civil War amendments and includes the due process and equal protection clauses. ... The Slaughter-House Cases, 83 U.S. 36 (1873) represented a block appeal to the United States Supreme Court testing the relatively new Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. ... Munn v. ... Jump to: navigation, search The natural law or law of nature is a system of justice that exists independently of the positive law of a given political order. ... Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Pollock v. ... Media:Example. ... Jump to: navigation, search The Interstate Commerce Commission (ICC; 1887 - 1995) was a government regulatory body in the United States created by the Interstate Commerce Act of 1887, which was signed into law by President Grover Cleveland. ...


Field's concern for individual rights extended to minorities, writing opinions against California's laws discriminating against the Chinese immigrants to that state.


Field insisted on breaking John Marshall's record of thirty-three years on the court, even though he was not able to handle the workload. His colleagues asked him to resign, but he refused, staying on until 1897. He lived only two years more, dying in Washington, D.C., and buried there in the Rock Creek Cemetery. Jump to: navigation, search Chief Justice John Marshall (1755–1835), an engraving after Henry Inmans 1834 painting. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1897 was a common year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search Washington, D.C. is the capital city of the United States of America. ... Rock Creek Cemetery (a. ...


There was an assassination attempt on Justice Field by a former associate of his on the California Supreme Court, David S. Terry. Justice Terry was shot and killed by Field's bodyguard. See George C. Gorham, “The Story of the Attempted Assassination of Justice Field by a Former Associate on the Supreme Bench of California”, Journal of the Supreme Court Historical Society, Volume 30; Issue 2 (2005). Jump to: navigation, search David Smith Terry (March 8, 1823 - August 14, 1889) was a California politician, perhaps best known for his having killed United States Senator David C. Broderick in a duel. ...


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Preceded by:
(none)
Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States
May 20, 1863December 1, 1897
Succeeded by:
Joseph McKenna
The Taney Court Seal of the U.S. Supreme Court
18631864: J. M. Wayne | J. Catron | S. Nelson | R. C. Grier | N. Clifford | N. H. Swayne | S. F. Miller | D. Davis | S. J. Field
The Chase Court
18641865: J. M. Wayne | J. Catron | S. Nelson | R. C. Grier | N. Clifford | N. H. Swayne | S. F. Miller | D. Davis | S. J. Field
18651867: J. M. Wayne | S. Nelson | R. C. Grier | N. Clifford | N. H. Swayne | S. F. Miller | D. Davis | S. J. Field
18671870: S. Nelson | R. C. Grier | N. Clifford | N. H. Swayne | S. F. Miller | D. Davis | S. J. Field
18701872: S. Nelson | N. Clifford | N. H. Swayne | S. F. Miller | D. Davis | S. J. Field | Wm. Strong | J.P. Bradley
1873: N. Clifford | N. H. Swayne | S. F. Miller | D. Davis | S. J. Field | Wm. Strong | J.P. Bradley | W. Hunt
The Waite Court
18741877: N. Clifford | N. H. Swayne | S. F. Miller | D. Davis | S. J. Field | Wm. Strong | J.P. Bradley | W. Hunt
18771880: N. Clifford | N. H. Swayne | S. F. Miller | S. J. Field | Wm. Strong | J.P. Bradley | W. Hunt | J. M. Harlan
1881: N. Clifford | S. F. Miller | S. J. Field | J.P. Bradley | W. Hunt | J. M. Harlan | Wm. B. Woods | Th. S. Matthews
18821887: S. F. Miller | S. J. Field | J.P. Bradley | J. M. Harlan | Wm. B. Woods | Th. S. Matthews | H. Gray | S. Blatchford
1888: S. F. Miller | S. J. Field | J.P. Bradley | J. M. Harlan | Th. S. Matthews | H. Gray | S. Blatchford | L.Q.C. Lamar II
The Fuller Court
18881889: S. F. Miller | S. J. Field | J.P. Bradley | J. M. Harlan | Th. S. Matthews | H. Gray | S. Blatchford | L.Q.C. Lamar II
18901891: S. J. Field | J.P. Bradley | J. M. Harlan | H. Gray | S. Blatchford | L.Q.C. Lamar II | D.J. Brewer
18911892: S. J. Field | J.P. Bradley | J. M. Harlan | H. Gray | S. Blatchford | L.Q.C. Lamar II | D.J. Brewer | H.B. Brown
18921893: S. J. Field | J. M. Harlan | H. Gray | S. Blatchford | L.Q.C. Lamar II | D.J. Brewer | H.B. Brown | Geo. Shiras, Jr.
1893: S. J. Field | J. M. Harlan | H. Gray | S. Blatchford | D.J. Brewer | H.B. Brown | Geo. Shiras, Jr. | H.E. Jackson
18941895: S. J. Field | J. M. Harlan | H. Gray | D.J. Brewer | H.B. Brown | Geo. Shiras, Jr. | H.E. Jackson | E.D. White
18961897: S. J. Field | J. M. Harlan | H. Gray | D.J. Brewer | H.B. Brown | Geo. Shiras, Jr. | E.D. White | R.W. Peckham
Preceded by:
David S. Terry
Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court
18591863
Succeeded by:
Warner W. Cope

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