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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MissouriBATES, Edward
(1793—1869)
BATES, Edward, (brother of James Woodson Bates), a Representative from Missouri; born in Belmont, Goochland County, Va., September 4, 1793; attended Charlotte Hall Academy, Maryland; acted as sergeant in a volunteer brigade during the War of 1812; moved to St. Louis, Mo., in 1814; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1817 and practiced; circuit prosecuting attorney in 1818; member of the State constitutional convention in 1820; State’s attorney in 1820; member of the State house of representatives in 1822; United States district attorney 1821-1826; elected as an Adams to the Twentieth Congress (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1829); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress; resumed the practice of law; member of the State senate in 1830; again a member of the State house of representatives in 1834; declined the appointment as Secretary of War in 1850 in the Cabinet of President Fillmore; judge of the St. Louis land court 1853-1856; presided at the Whig National Convention in 1856; appointed by President Lincoln as Attorney General of the United States and served from March 5, 1861, to September 1864; died in St. Louis, Mo., March 25, 1869; interment in Bellefontaine Cemetery; removed from Bellefontaine Cemetery, place of reinterment not known.
Bibliography
Bates, Edward. The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859-1866
. Edited by Howard Kennedy Beale. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1933. Reprint, New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.
Bates, Edward. The Diary of Edward Bates, 1859-1866
. Edited by Howard Kennedy Beale. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1933. Reprint, New York: Da Capo Press, 1971.
———. Edward Bates against Thomas H. Benton
. St. Louis: Charless & Paschall, printers, 1828.
———. Letter of Hon. Edward Bates, of Missouri, indorsing Mr. Lincoln, and giving his reasons for supporting the Chicago nominees
. [Washington: Printed at the Congressional globe office, 1860].
Cain, Marvin R. Lincoln’s Attorney General: Edward Bates of Missouri.
Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 1965.
Frank, John P. “Edward Bates, Lincoln’s Attorney General.” American Journal of Legal History
10 (January 1966): 34-50.
Nicholas, Samuel Smith. A review of the argument of President Lincoln and Attorney General Bates, in favor of presidential power to suspend the privilege of the writ of habeas corpus
. Louisville, Ky.: Printed by Bradley & Gilbert, 1861.
Shoemaker, Floyd C. “David Barton, John Rice Jones and Edward Bates: Three Missouri State and Statehood Founders.” Missouri Historical Review
65 (July 1971): 527-43.
United States. Attorney-General. Opinion of Attorney General Bates on citizenship
. 1862. Reprint, Washington: Government Printing Office, 1863.
———. Opinion of Hon. Edward Bates, attorney general of the United States, on the validity of the acceptances given by John B. Floyd, secretary of war, to Russell, Majors, & Waddell, now held by Peirce & Bacon
. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1862.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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