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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—TennesseeWilliam Brimage BATE
(1826-1905)
Senate Years of Service:
1887-1905Party: DemocratBATE, William Brimage, a
Senator from Tennessee; born near Castalian Springs, Sumner County,
Tenn., October 7, 1826; completed an academic course of study;
served as a private in Louisiana and Tennessee regiments throughout
the Mexican War; member, State house of representatives 1849-1851;
graduated from the law department of Lebanon University, Lebanon,
Tenn., in 1852; admitted to the bar and commenced practice in
Gallatin, Tenn.; elected attorney general for the Nashville
district in 1854; during the Civil War served in the Confederate
army, attained the rank of major general, surrendered with the Army
of the Tennessee in 1865; after the war returned to Tennessee and
resumed the practice of law at Gallatin; elected Governor of
Tennessee in 1882 and reelected in 1884; elected as a Democrat to
the United States Senate in 1887; reelected in 1893, 1899, and
again in 1905, and served from March 4, 1887, until his death in
Washington, D.C., March 9, 1905; chairman, Committee on the
Improvement of the Mississippi River and its Tributaries
(Fifty-third Congress), Committee on Military Affairs (Fifty-third
Congress), Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine
(Fifty-eighth and Fifty-ninth Congresses); funeral services were
held in the Chamber of the United States Senate; interment in Mount
Olivet Cemetery, Nashville, Tenn.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Marshall, Park. A Life of William Bate, Citizen,
Soldier, and Statesman. Nashville: Cumberland Press, 1908; U.S.
Congress. Memorial Addresses. 59th Cong., 2nd sess.,
1906-1907. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1907;
Schlup, Leonard. ”Imperialist Dissenter: William B. Bate and
the Battle Against Territorial Acquisitions, 1898-1900.”
Southern Studies 6 (Summer 1995): 61-84.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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