Edward Bates, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Edward Bates

American politician, lawyer and judge

Date of Birth: 04-Sep-1793

Place of Birth: Goochland County, Virginia, United States

Date of Death: 25-Mar-1869

Profession: judge, lawyer, politician

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Edward Bates

  • Edward Bates (September 4, 1793 – March 25, 1869) was an American lawyer and politician.
  • He represented Missouri in the United States House of Representatives and served as the United States Attorney General under President Abraham Lincoln.
  • A member of the influential Bates family, he was the first 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 thirty 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 becoming 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 objected to the Emancipation Proclamation and resigned from the Cabinet in 1864 after being passed over for a Supreme Court appointment.
  • After leaving office, he unsuccessfully opposed the adoption of a new state constitution in Missouri.

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