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{{Infobox officeholder
|name=Harvey Goodwyn Fields, Sr.
|image=Harvey Fields of LA.png
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Senator<br> for Union and Morehouse parishes
|term_start=1916
|term_end=1920
|preceded=J. G. Taylor
|succeeded=W. T. Barham
|office2=United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana
|term_start2=1937
|term_end2=1941
|preceded2=
|succeeded2=[[Malcolm Lafargue]]
|birth_date=May 31, 1882
|birth_place=Marksville, Louisiana
|death_date=May 5, 1961 (aged 78)
|death_place=Union Parish, Louisiana
|residence=Farmerville, Louisiana
|spouse=Evelyn Sanders Fields (married 1908; died 1961)
|children=Three children,<br> including [[T. T. Fields]]
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|alma_mater=[[Louisiana Tech University]]<br />
[[Tulane University]] Law School
|occupation=[[Attorney]]}}
'''Harvey Goodwyn Fields, Sr.''' (May 31, 1882 – May 5, 1961), was an [[attorney]] and [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[politician]] from Farmerville, [[Louisiana]], who was affiliated with the [[Huey Long|Long]] political faction and was considered a spokesman for "the common man."
==Career==
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, [[T. T. Fields|Thomas Theodore Fields Jr.]], and Harvey Fields, Jr. (1918-1965), and a daughter, Joy (1915-1980). Fields attended [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|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 in North Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=
http://senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/1880membership.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-2024|publisher=louisiana State Senate|accessdate=February 3, 2021}}</ref> Field's Senate tenure paralleled the administration of [[Governor Ruffin G. Pleasant of [[Shreveport]], a Union Parish native.
After his 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 Convention]]s of 1924, 1928, 1932, and 1936. He succeeded [[Huey Long|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.<ref>{{cite news|title=M. E. Lafargue, Former District Attorney, Dies – Succumbs in Sleep Here at Age 54; Services Saturday|publisher=''[[Shreveport Journal]]''|date=March 28, 1963|pages=1-A, 4-A}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2016: Union and Morehouse parishes|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=February 3, 2021}}</ref>
Thomas T. Fields, Jr., a grandson of Harvey Fields, penned a biography in 2009 of his grandfather, ''I Called Him Grand Dad.''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/I-Called-Him-Grand-Dad/dp/1441535403|title=I Called Him Grand Dad|author=Thomas T. Fields|date=2009|publisher=XLibris|pages=227|isbn=978-1441535405|accessdate=February 3, 2021}}</ref>
==References==
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[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Educators]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:State Senators]]
[[Category:Democrats]]
|name=Harvey Goodwyn Fields, Sr.
|image=Harvey Fields of LA.png
|office=[[Louisiana]] State Senator<br> for Union and Morehouse parishes
|term_start=1916
|term_end=1920
|preceded=J. G. Taylor
|succeeded=W. T. Barham
|office2=United States Attorney for the Western District of Louisiana
|term_start2=1937
|term_end2=1941
|preceded2=
|succeeded2=[[Malcolm Lafargue]]
|birth_date=May 31, 1882
|birth_place=Marksville, Louisiana
|death_date=May 5, 1961 (aged 78)
|death_place=Union Parish, Louisiana
|residence=Farmerville, Louisiana
|spouse=Evelyn Sanders Fields (married 1908; died 1961)
|children=Three children,<br> including [[T. T. Fields]]
|party=[[Democratic Party|Democrat]]
|alma_mater=[[Louisiana Tech University]]<br />
[[Tulane University]] Law School
|occupation=[[Attorney]]}}
'''Harvey Goodwyn Fields, Sr.''' (May 31, 1882 – May 5, 1961), was an [[attorney]] and [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[politician]] from Farmerville, [[Louisiana]], who was affiliated with the [[Huey Long|Long]] political faction and was considered a spokesman for "the common man."
==Career==
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, [[T. T. Fields|Thomas Theodore Fields Jr.]], and Harvey Fields, Jr. (1918-1965), and a daughter, Joy (1915-1980). Fields attended [[Louisiana Tech University]] in [[Ruston, Louisiana|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 in North Louisiana.<ref>{{cite web|url=
http://senate.la.gov/Documents/Membership/1880membership.pdf|title=Membership of the Louisiana State Senate, 1880-2024|publisher=louisiana State Senate|accessdate=February 3, 2021}}</ref> Field's Senate tenure paralleled the administration of [[Governor Ruffin G. Pleasant of [[Shreveport]], a Union Parish native.
After his 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 Convention]]s of 1924, 1928, 1932, and 1936. He succeeded [[Huey Long|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.<ref>{{cite news|title=M. E. Lafargue, Former District Attorney, Dies – Succumbs in Sleep Here at Age 54; Services Saturday|publisher=''[[Shreveport Journal]]''|date=March 28, 1963|pages=1-A, 4-A}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://house.louisiana.gov/H_PDFdocs/HouseMembership_History_CURRENT.pdf|title=Membership in the Louisiana House of Representatives, 1812-2016: Union and Morehouse parishes|publisher=Louisiana House of Representatives|accessdate=February 3, 2021}}</ref>
Thomas T. Fields, Jr., a grandson of Harvey Fields, penned a biography in 2009 of his grandfather, ''I Called Him Grand Dad.''<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.amazon.com/I-Called-Him-Grand-Dad/dp/1441535403|title=I Called Him Grand Dad|author=Thomas T. Fields|date=2009|publisher=XLibris|pages=227|isbn=978-1441535405|accessdate=February 3, 2021}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fields, Harvey}}
[[Category:Louisiana People]]
[[Category:Educators]]
[[Category:Attorneys]]
[[Category:Politicians]]
[[Category:State Senators]]
[[Category:Democrats]]