# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/roswell-martin-field
# Generated: 2026-08-15T02:57:23.020Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/roswell-martin-field"
name: "Roswell Martin Field"
slug: "roswell-martin-field"
description: "Roswell Martin Field was an American lawyer and politician. He served on the Vermont House of Representatives. Field was one of the attorneys for the enslaved Dred and Harriet Scott and their daughters in 1853; as related to Dred Scott v. Sandford, where he argued for the rights of African-Americans to earn United States citizenship. He was from the prominent Field family of Vermont."
tagline: "American lawyer (1807–1869)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Roswell_M._Field.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1807-02-22"
deathDate: "1869-07-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           34.79
  momentum:             3.75
  historical:           1.535889333333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     9.999999999999998
  profileCompleteness:  64
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roswell_Field"
    title: "Roswell Field"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51533632"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-relations