Edward Bates

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American politician, lawyer and judge (1793-1869)

United States PoliticiansLived 1793 to 1869 · aged 75

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Edward Bates was an American lawyer, politician and judge. 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.

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Bates as a candidate for President, published in Harper's Weekly, 1860

First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln by Francis Bicknell Carpenter (1864) (Clickable image - use cursor to identify.)

Portrait of Bates later in life by Mathew Brady

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ChildJohn C. Bates

SiblingFrederick Bates

SiblingJames Woodson Bates

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