David dudley field biography

1805-1894.
Born: Feb. 13, 1805, Haddam, Conn., U.S. (born on this day) ; Died: April 13, 1894, New York City (aged 89) ; Also called: Anglo-American law.
David Dudley Field II was an American lawyer and law reformer who made major contributions to the development of American civil procedure.

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David Dudley Field II

American lawyer and politician (1805–1894)

For other people with similar names, see David Field.

David Dudley Field II (February 13, 1805 – April 13, 1894) 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 1850 by the state of New York.

In 1877, he also served briefly as a U.S. Representative from New York's 7th congressional district.

Early life and education

Field was born in Haddam, Connecticut on February 13, 1805.^[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, and Rev. Henry Martyn Field, a prominent clergyman and travel wr

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David Dudley Field I

American clergyman and historian (1781–1867)

David Dudley Field

Born	(1781-05-20)May 20, 1781 Madison, Connecticut, U.S.
Died	April 15, 1867(1867-04-15) (aged 85) Stockbridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
Occupation(s)	Clergyman and historian
Spouse	Submit Dickinson Field (m. 1803; died 1861)
Children	Eight sons, two daughters

David Dudley Field I (May 20, 1781 – April 15, 1867) was an American Congregational clergyman and historical writer. He was born in East Guilford, now Madison, Connecticut on May 20, 1781, the son of Timothy Field, an officer during the American Revolution. He graduated from Yale in 1802, and received Doctorate in Divinity degree from Williams College. He held pastorates at Haddam, Connecticut, and Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He wrote A History of the Town of Pittsfield, in Berkshire County, Massachusetts (1814), A Statistical Account of the County of Middlesex in Connecticut (1819), The Genealogy of the Brainerd Family, in the

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1805-1894

David Dudley Field was born in Haddam, Middlesex County, Connecticut, on February 13, 1805. He was educated by private tutors, and then attended Williams College, Massachusetts. Following his graduation in 1825, Field began his legal studies in the law office of Harmanus Bleecker in Albany, New York. He was admitted to the bar in 1828 and set up a very successful practice in New York City. After the Civil War, he argued several constitutional law cases before the Supreme Court of the United States.

In 1837, David Dudley Field started a campaign to reform the New York judicial system, which culminated many years later at the Constitutional Convention of 1846. In 1847, the Legislature appointed him to a three- person commission charged with drafting a code of practice and procedure for the new court system. He was widely acknowledged as the principle draftsman of the code which influenced civil procedure worldwide and became known as the Field Code. Field was also involved in drafting a code of criminal procedure and, between 1857 and 1865, he served on a commission char