Walbridge A. Field

Walbridge Abner Field ( born April 26, 1833 in North Springfield, Windsor County, Vermont; † July 15, 1899 in Boston, Massachusetts) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1877 and 1881 he represented two times the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Walbridge Field visit to 1855 Dartmouth College in Hanover (New Hampshire). In the years 1856-1859, he worked as a teacher. After studying law in Boston and at Harvard University and his 1860 was admitted to the bar he began to work in Boston in this profession. In 1863 and 1864 he was a member of the school board of this city. Then he sat from 1865 to 1867 in the City Council. Since 1865 to 1869 he was Deputy Attorney General. He then worked until 1870 as an Assistant Attorney General for the U.S. Department of Justice. He then practiced as a lawyer again. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1876 Field was in the third electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Henry L. Pierce on March 4, 1877. The election result but was challenged by his rival candidate Benjamin Dean. At the time this appeal upheld, he was forced to resign on March 28, 1878 from his position at Dean. In the elections of 1878 Field was re-elected to Congress, where he replaced Dean again on March 4, 1879. Now until March 3, 1881, he was able to complete a full term in Congress. In 1880 he gave up another candidacy.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Walbridge Field was appointed as a judge of the Massachusetts Supreme Court. Since 1890 up to death on July 15, 1899, he stood before this Court as Chief Justice.