Stephen Johnson Field

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Stephen Johnson Field (November 4, 1816 – April 9, 1899) was an American jurist. He was an Associate Justice of the United States Supreme Court from 1863 to 1897, and prior to that, he was the fifth Chief Justice of California. He had the third-longest tenure of any justice and is the only justice to have served contemporaneously with a relative: his nephew, David J. Brewer.

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