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Field (STEPHEN JOHNSON an lege)

STEPHEN JOHNSON, an lege in 1837; studied law and was ad- Field; was graduated at Williams Col- Nov. 4, 1816; brother of Cyrus West Field; was graduated at Williams College in 1837; studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1841; and removed to San Francisco in 1849. He was elected to the first legislature under the California constitution, in the autumn of 1850; prepared a code of mining, civil and criminal laws, which was generally adopted in the Western States; became a justice of the Supreme Court of California in 1857; was appointed its chiefjustice in 1859; and in 1863 was appointed an associate justice of the United States Supreme Court, which office he resigned in April, 1897. He died in Washington, D. C., April 9, 1899.

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