Bates family biography formation
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Bates family biography formation
Bates family
This article is about the business and political family. For the television show, see Bringing Up Bates.
The Bates family is an American political and banking family from Maine and Massachusetts whose members include a prominent member of the prestigious Hell Fire Club, the 26th U.S.
Attorney General serving under Abraham Lincoln, the second Governor of Missouri, a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for Arkansas, and a prominent textile tycoon who founded the Bates Manufacturing Company and Bates College in Lewiston, Maine.
The family includes various merchants, politicians, inventors, clergymen, artists, and socialites.
The family is related to the prominent political Gilbert family and indirectly to the Alden family, the first family on the Mayflower.
History
Early prominence
The Bates family most likely originated from Lydd in Kent, England.[1] They have lived there since at least the 13th century. The prominence of the Bates family