was part of the team of defense counsel that William M. Tweed assembled to defend himself during the first criminal prosecution of Tweed in 1873. Other members of the defense team included John Graham and Elihu Root. This first trial ended when the jury could not agree on a verdict. In a second trial in November 1873, Tweed received a sentence of twelve years in prison and a $12,750 fine from judge Noah Davis. Later career After 1876, Field returned to the Democratic Party, and from January to March 1877 served out in the United States House of Representatives the unexpired term of Smith Ely, who had been elected Mayor of New York City. During his brief Congressional career he delivered six speeches (all of which attracted attention), introduced a bill in regard to the presidential succession, and appeared before the Electoral Commission in Samuel J. Tilden's interest during the highly controversial presidential election of 1876. He died in New York City in 1894. Works Some of his numerous pamphlets and addresses were collected in his Speeches, Arguments and Miscellaneous Papers (3 vols., 1884–1890). See also the Life of David Dudley Field (New York, 1898), by Rev. Henry Martyn Field. Gabor Hamza, Le développement du droit privé européen (Budapest, 2005) 178 ss. pp. Gabor Hamza, Entstehung und Entwicklung der modernen Privatrechtsordnungen und die römischrechtliche Tradition (Budapest 2009) 619 sq. pp. See also Young America Movement Hundred of Dudley Anthony Musgrave References Sources External links Field Family Letters at Syracuse University Mr. Lincoln and New York: David Dudley Field Guide to the Sir Anthony Musgrave Papers, 1739-1966 — Archive of the personal papers of Musgrave, his wife Jeanie Lucinda, and her father David Dudley Field II, at Duke University Libraries 1805 births 1894 deaths People from Haddam, Connecticut American jurists William M. Tweed Members of the Institut de Droit International Field family Williams College alumni New York (state) Republicans New York (state) Free Soilers Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) 19th-century American politicians Members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) Presidents of the American Bar Association