The Bates family is an American political and banking family from Maine and Massachusetts whose members include a prominent member of the prestigious Hell Fire Club, the 26th U.S. Attorney General serving under Abraham Lincoln, the second Governor of Missouri, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Arkansas, and a prominent textile tycoon who founded the Bates Manufacturing Company and Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. The family includes various merchants, politicians, inventors, clergymen, artists, and socialites.
The grave of Benjamin Bates IV located in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Edward Bates, sitting next to Abraham Lincoln at the First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation
Bates Mill & Canal
Governor of Missouri, Frederick Bates
Frederick Bates (politician)
Frederick Bates, was an American attorney and politician. He was elected in 1824 as the second governor of Missouri and died in office in 1825. Before that he had served as a justice of the Territorial Supreme Court for Michigan Territory, was appointed by Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of the Louisiana Territory and started to build his political base in St. Louis.
Frederick Bates (politician)
Main house at Thornhill, Governor Bates estate.
