T. T. Fields, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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American state representative
Date of Birth: 12-Oct-1912
Place of Birth: Union Parish, Louisiana, United States
Date of Death: 17-Jan-1994
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About T. T. Fields
- Thomas Theodore Fields, Jr., known as T.
- T.
- Fields (October 12, 1912 – January 17, 1994), was a Democratic member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from his native Farmerville in Union Parish in north Louisiana.
- He served from 1952 to 1964 and again from a combined Union and Morehouse parish district from 1968 to 1972.
- His service extended under Governors Robert F.
- Kennon, Earl Kemp Long, Jimmie Davis, and the second administration of John McKeithen.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.
- 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 Pierce Long, Jr.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.
- Both Patton and Fields were unseated in the 1963-64 election cycle after Lake D'Arbonne had already 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 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.
- 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.Fields was married to Ruth Atcheson "Katie" Fields (1914-1993), whom he outlived by eight months.
- The couple and other family members are interred at Farmerville Cemetery in Farmerville.
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