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David Dudley Field II
American lawyer and politician (–)
For other people with similar names, see David Field.
David Dudley Field II (February 13, &#;&#; April 13, ) was an American lawyer and law reformer who made major contributions to the development of American civil procedure. His greatest accomplishment was engineering the move away from common law pleading towards code pleading, which culminated in the enactment of the Field Code in by the state of New York.
In , he also served briefly as a U.S. Representative from New York's 7th congressional district.
Early life and education
[edit]Field was born in Haddam, Connecticut on February 13, [1] He was the oldest of the eight sons and two daughters of the Rev. David Dudley Field I, a Congregational minister and local historian, and Submit Dickenson Field. His brothers included Stephen Johnson Field, a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, Cyrus Field, a prominent businessman and creator of the Atlantic Cable, a
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Mr. Lincoln first met David Dudley Field in Chicago at the River and Harbor Convention in July where Mr. Lincoln delivered a reply to Field&#;s contention that publicly financed public works should be limited by the Constitution. The New York Tribune reported that the &#;Hon. Abraham Lincoln, a tall specimen of an Illinoisan&#;was called out, and spoke briefly and happily in reply to Mr. Field.&#;1 At that point, Field was a &#;Barnburner&#; Democrat and Mr. Lincoln was a Whig. By , however, both men had become Republicans.
Mr. Lincoln next met Field in New York City in February when Field called to order a meeting at Cooper Institute and moved that New York Evening Post editor William Cullen Bryant be made chairman of the meeting. At that meeting, Mr. Lincoln analyzed the history of slavery in the Constitution and other founding documents of the Republic. bygd this time, Field had moved from being an anti-slavery Democrat to a staunch Republican — alb
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David Dudley Field secured a place in the nineteenth century as a commanding legal reformer. The primary achievement of the New York lawyer was his codification of the common laws of the United States. In addition, Field was among the most successful commercial and constitutional lawyers in New York. The cases he took on often anticipated those of the modern, made-for-hire corporate lawyer. Field also made contributions to the national political scen. In different capacities, both before and after the Civil War, he managed to represent the constitutional interests of both the Democratic and Republican Parties. As a Northern opponent of slavery, still sympathetic to the rights of Southerners, he pursued a fight for justice for the common person on legal and moral grounds. At the same time, his somewhat radical belief in the need to streamline law incited considerable resistance. During and after his lifetime, lawyers and others r