Person:Edward Bates (23)
Edward Bates
b.4 Sep 1793 Goochland, Virginia, United States
d.25 Mar 1869 St. Louis (independent city), Missouri, United States
Parents and Siblings
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m. 8 Aug 1771
  1. Frederick Bates1777 - 1825
  2. James Woodson Bates1788 - 1846
  3. Edward Bates1793 - 1869
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m. 29 May 1823
  1. John C. Bates1842 - 1919
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Facts and Events
Name Edward Bates
Gender Male
Birth[1] 4 Sep 1793 Goochland, Virginia, United States
Marriage 29 May 1823 St. Charles County, Missourito Julia Davenport Coalter
Death[1] 25 Mar 1869 St. Louis (independent city), Missouri, United States
Reference Number? Q1291670?


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Edward Bates (September 4, 1793 – March 25, 1869) was an American slave owner, lawyer and politician. He represented Missouri in the US House of Representatives and served as the U.S. Attorney General under President Abraham Lincoln. A member of the influential Bates family, he was the first US Cabinet appointee from a state west of the Mississippi River.

Born in Goochland County, Virginia, in 1814 Bates moved to St. Louis, where he established a legal practice. He was appointed as the first attorney general of the state of Missouri in 1820. Over the next 30 years, he won election to a single term in Congress and served in both the Missouri House of Representatives and the Missouri Senate, becoming a prominent member of the Whig Party. He also represented Lucy Delaney in a successful freedom suit.

After the breakup of the Whig Party in the early 1850s, he briefly joined the American Party before he became a member of the Republican Party. He was a candidate for president at the 1860 Republican National Convention, but Lincoln won the party's nomination. Bates was appointed as attorney general in 1861, at the start of the American Civil War. He successfully carried out some of the administration's early war policies, but he disagreed with Lincoln on the issue of the Emancipation Proclamation. He did not support full civil and political equality for Blacks. Bates resigned from the Cabinet in 1864 after he had been passed over for a US Supreme Court appointment. After leaving office, he unsuccessfully opposed the adoption of a new state constitution in Missouri.

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Edward Bates, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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