death_date children birth_date residence term_end death_place image_size preceded term_start spouse image name caption resting_place succeeded birth_place party office parents article_title
17 january 1994 thomas fields , jr. theodore fields , iii , known as thomas 12 october 1912 farmerville , louisiana 1964 1972 union parish , louisiana 175px robert s. kennedy james peyton smith 1952 1968 ruth atheson `` katie '' fields t. _ t. _ fields_of_louisiana . jpg theodore thomas `` t. t. '' fields , jr. fields in his early years farmerville cemetery in farmerville in union parish james peyton smith two-member district : louisiana union parish , louisiana , usa democrat louisiana for union and morehouse parishes state representative for union parish louisiana state representative harvey fields t. t. fields

t. t. fields

thomas theodore fields , jr. , known as t. t. fields -lrb- october 12 , 1912 -- january 17 , 1994 -rrb- , 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 -lrb- 1846-1921 -rrb- , 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 -lrb- 1914-1993 -rrb- , whom he outlived by eight months .
the couple and other family members are interred at farmerville cemetery in farmerville .
