Isaac C. Bates

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name =Isaac Chapman Bates


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state =Massachusetts
district =8th
term_start =March 4, 1827
term_end =March 3, 1835
preceded =Samuel Lathrop
succeeded =William B. Calhoun
order2 =United States Senator
from Massachusetts
term_start2 =January 13, 1841
term_end2 =March 16, 1845
predecessor2 =John Davis
successor2 =John Davis
birth_date =January 23, 1779
birth_place =Granville, Massachusetts
death_date =March 16, 1845 (aged 66)
death_place =Washington, D.C.
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party =Federalist
Whig
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alma_mater =Yale College
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profession =Law
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Isaac Chapman Bates (1779-1845) was an American politician from Massachusetts.

He was born in Granville, Massachusetts, on January 23, 1779, and graduated from Yale College in 1802. He practiced law in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1808.

Political career

Massachusetts House of Representatives

He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1808-1809).

United States House of Representatives

Bates was elected to the United States House of Representatives (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1835). He was chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Military Pensions in the Twenty-first Congress). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1834.

United States Senate

He was elected as a Whig to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term ending March 3, 1841, caused by the resignation of John Davis and on the same day elected for the term commencing March 4, 1841, and served from January 13, 1841, until his death on March 16, 1845. He was chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Pensions (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses); interment in Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Massachusetts.

ources and external links

*"Memoir of Hon. I.C. Bates, Late United States Senator from Massachusetts.” American Whig Review 3 (February 1846): 186-192.