Harvey Fields

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Harvey Goodwyn Fields, Sr.
Louisiana State Senator for Union and Morehouse parishes
In office 1916–1920
Preceded by	J. G. Taylor
Succeeded by	W. T. Barham
United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana
In office 1937–1941
Succeeded by	Malcolm Lafargue
Born	May 31, 1882 Marksville, Louisiana
Died	May 5, 1961 (aged 78) Union Parish, Louisiana
Political party	Democrat
Spouse(s)	Evelyn Sanders Fields (married 1908; died 1961)
Children	Three children, including T. T. Fields
Residence	Farmerville, Louisiana
Alma mater	Louisiana Tech University Tulane University Law School
Occupation	Attorney

Harvey Goodwyn Fields, Sr. (May 31, 1882 – May 5, 1961), was an attorney and Democratic politician from Farmerville, Louisiana, who was affiliated with the Long political faction and was considered a spokesman for "the common man."

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Fields was born in Marksville in Avoyelles Parish in South Louisiana. In 1908, Fields married the former Evelyn Sanders (1889-1961), and they had two sons, Thomas Theodore Fields Jr., and Harvey Fields, Jr. (1918-1965), and a daughter, Joy (1915-1980). Fields attended Louisiana Tech University in Ruston, taught school for a time, and then graduated from the Tulane University Law School in New Orleans. He served for one term in the state Senate from 1916 to 1920 for adjoining Morehouse and Union parishes during the administration of Governor Ruffin Golson Pleasant (1871-1937) of Shreveport and also a native of Union Parish.^[1]

After his state Senate tenure, Fields was from 1922 to 1925 the district attorney for his adopted Union Parish. From 1926 to 1929, he was the chairman of the Louisiana Democratic State Central Committee. He was a delegate to the Democratic National Conventions of 1924, 1928, 1932, and 1936. He succeeded Huey Pierce Long Jr., on the elected Louisiana Public Service Commission in the then Third PSC District, a position which he filled from 1927 to 1936. Earlier, Fields had briefly been Long's law partner in Shreveport. From 1937 to 1941, Fields was the United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana, based in Shreveport, an appointment under the administration of U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1939, Fields assigned his assistant attorney and subsequent successor, Malcolm Lafargue, also a native of Marksville, to prosecute the Louisiana Hayride scandals in the forty parishes within the Western District.^[2]

Fields and his wife both died in 1961. Son T. T. Fields was a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from Union Parish from 1956 to 1964 and from Union and Morehouse parishes from 1968 to 1972.^[3]

Thomas T. Fields, Jr., a grandson of Harvey Fields, penned a biography in 2009 of his grandfather, I Called Him Grand Dad.^[4]

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