Thomas C. Fields

He studied law in Delhi, was admitted to the bar in 1846, and practiced in New York City. In 1847, he married Annie E. Smith. He was a Central Park Commissioner from 1857 to 1870; and a New York City Park Commissioner from 1870 to 1872.

He was a member of the New York State Assembly (New York Co., 17th D.) in 1863; of the New York State Senate (7th D.) in 1864 and 1865; and again of the State Assembly (New York Co., 19th D.) in 1870, 1871 and 1872.

During the impeachment of New York State Supreme Court Justice George G. Barnard, among the charges it was noted that Barnard denied alimony to Annie on behalf of Fields.{{cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=O4g7AQAAMAAJ&q=state+judge+from+poughkeepsie%2C+jay+gould&pg=PA158|title=Documents of the State of New York Volume 6 - Charges Against Justice George G. Barnard, and Testimony Thereunder, Before the Judiciary Committee of the Assembly|date= 1872|publisher=Weed, Parsons and Company, Printers|pages=8–9|accessdate=November 18, 2018}}

He was a member of the Tweed Ring, and in the autumn of 1872 he fled to Cuba, then Europe, and finally Canada, and died while being a fugitive from justice at his residence "The Priory", near St. Andrews, in Quebec.

• [https://books.google.com/books?id=GyUOAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA443 The New York Civil List] compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough, Stephen C. Hutchins and Edgar Albert Werner (1870; pg. 443 and 498)
• [https://archive.org/details/cu31924014084556/page/n326 Biographical Sketches of the State Officers and the Members of the Legislature of the State of New York in 1862 and '63] by William D. Murphy (pg. 317f)
• [http://www.nycgovparks.org/about/history/commissioners NYC Park Commissioners]
• [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1872/10/12/79199055.pdf TOM FIELDS GONE] in NYT on October 12, 1872
• [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1873/05/21/82024646.pdf THE FIREMEN'S CLAIMS; Verdict Against Thomas C. Fields at Suit of the People for $554,062.73] in NYT on May 21, 1873
• [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1885/01/26/106296166.pdf THOMAS C. FIELDS DEAD] in NYT on January 26, 1885

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New York County, 17th District | years = 1863 | after = Sidney P. Ingraham Jr.}}

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New York County, 19th District | years = 1870–1872 | after = James A. Derring}}

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{{succession box | before = Richard B. Connolly | title = New York State Senate
7th District | years = 1864–1865 | after = Thomas Murphy}}

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