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Fields's namesake grandfather, Theodore Thomas Fields, I (1846-1921), was a newspaper editor in Avoyelles Parish in South Louisiana and a native of  Danville in Boyle County, [[Kentucky]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14673088|title=Theodore Thomas Fields, I|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=February 3, 2021}}</ref> Fields' father, [[Harvey Fields]], a Marksville native, was a state senator for Union and Morehouse parishes from 1916 to 1920, a member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission from 1927 to 1936, and briefly a law partner of [[Huey Long|Huey Pierce Long, Jr.]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38084540|title=Harvey Goodwyn Fields, Sr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=February 3, 2021}}</ref>

Fields's namesake grandfather, Theodore Thomas Fields, I (1846-1921), was a newspaper editor in Avoyelles Parish in South Louisiana and a native of  Danville in Boyle County, [[Kentucky]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/14673088|title=Theodore Thomas Fields, I|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=February 3, 2021}}</ref> Fields' father, [[Harvey Fields]], a Marksville native, was a state senator for Union and Morehouse parishes from 1916 to 1920, a member of the Louisiana Public Service Commission from 1927 to 1936, and briefly a law partner of [[Huey Long|Huey Pierce Long, Jr.]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38084540|title=Harvey Goodwyn Fields, Sr.|publisher=findagrave.com|accessdate=February 3, 2021}}</ref>

Along with [[Fred Preaus]], a Farmerville businessman who ran for governor in 1956, and  state Senator B. R. Patton, Fields worked to make Lake D'Arbonne in Farmerville a reality. Popular with fisherman and boaters, the large man-made lake opened in 1963.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lakedarbonnelife.com/2013/01/18/in-the-beginning/|title=In the Beginning|publisher=Lake D'Arbonne Life|date=January 18, 2013|accessdate=February 18, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://bab.stparchive.com/Archive/BAB/BAB11072013P05.php|title=Lake D'Arbonne Celebrating 50th Year|publisher=''The Bernice (Louisiana) Banner''|date=November 7, 2013|page=5|author=Kinny Haddox|accessdate=February 18, 2015}}</ref> Both Patton and Fields were unseated in the 1963-64 election cycle after Lake D'Arbonne had already been opened.

Along with [[Fred Preaus]], a Farmerville businessman who ran for governor in 1956, and  state Senator B. R. Patton, Fields worked to make Lake D'Arbonne in Farmerville a reality. Popular with fisherman and boaters, the large man-made lake opened in 1963.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://lakedarbonnelife.com/2013/01/18/in-the-beginning/|title=In the Beginning|publisher=Lake D'Arbonne Life|date=January 18, 2013|accessdate=February 3, 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://bab.stparchive.com/Archive/BAB/BAB11072013P05.php|title=Lake D'Arbonne Celebrating 50th Year|publisher=''The Bernice (Louisiana) Banner''|date=November 7, 2013|page=5|author=Kinny Haddox|accessdate=February 3, 2021}}</ref> Both Patton and Fields were unseated in the 1963-64 election cycle after Lake D'Arbonne had already been opened.

After three terms in the state House, Fields four years later won a comeback bid in the [[general election]] held on February 6, 1968. He and former intraparty rival, James Peyton Smith, defeated the lone [[Republican Party|Republican]] candidate, [[Edwards Barham]] of Oak Ridge in Morehouse Parish, who polled 44 percent of the vote in a three-candidate field in which two were  elected.<ref>''The Monroe News-Star,'' February 7, 1968.</ref> In 1975, Barham became the first Republican since [[Reconstruction]] to be elected to the Louisiana Senate. He served only one term until his defeat in 1979 by the Democrat David 'Bo' Ginn of Bastrop in Morehouse Parish.<ref>''[[Shreveport Journal]],'' October 29, 1979.</ref>

After three terms in the state House, Fields four years later won a comeback bid in the [[general election]] held on February 6, 1968. He and former intraparty rival, James Peyton Smith, defeated the lone [[Republican Party|Republican]] candidate, [[Edwards Barham]] of Oak Ridge in Morehouse Parish, who polled 44 percent of the vote in a three-candidate field in which two were  elected.<ref>''The Monroe News-Star,'' February 7, 1968.</ref> In 1975, Barham became the first Republican since [[Reconstruction]] to be elected to the Louisiana Senate. He served only one term until his defeat in 1979 by the Democrat David 'Bo' Ginn of Bastrop in Morehouse Parish.<ref>''[[Shreveport Journal]],'' October 29, 1979.</ref>