Bates, Edward
lawyer, jurist, legislator, congressman, was born Sept. 4, 1793, in Belmont, Va. He was elected a representative in congress from Missouri, serving from 1827 to 1829; and in 1830 was elected to the state senate. In 1834 he was again elected to the lower house of the legislature; in 1850 was appointed secretary of war, but declined the office; and in 1853 he was elected judge of the St. Louis land court, which office he resigned in 1856. In 1861 he was appointed attorney-general in President Lincoln's cabinet. He died March 25, 1869, in St.
Louis, Mo.