Henry C. Bates

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Henry Clay Bates (1887)

Henry Clay Bates (born January 29, 1843 in Derby Line , Vermont , † March 12, 1909 in Berkeley , California ) was an American lawyer and politician who was the 40th lieutenant governor of Vermont from 1898 to 1900 .

Life

Henry Clay Bates was born in Derby Line, Vermont. He attended schools in Vermont and Maine and studied law before being enlisted in the Civil War . Bates served as a member of Company C in the 4th Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Heavy Artillery.

After the war he was an active member of the Grand Army of the Republic , a fraternal association of veterans of the Civil War. Bates continued his law degree after leaving the army. He was admitted to the bar in 1866 and then worked in St. Johnsbury , Vermont.

He held various public offices for the Vermont Republican Party. So as a Superintendent of Schools in Guildhall and head of the Municipal Assembly of St. Johnsbury. He was also prosecutor for Caledonia County from 1880 to 1882 and from 1892 to 1894 .

From 1886 to 1890 Bates was a member of the Vermont Senate and also held the office of Senate President.

Bates was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives from 1896 to 1897. He won the election to lieutenant governor in 1898 and held that office until 1900.

He attended many meetings of the Republican Party for the county and state and was a delegate to the National Assembly in 1900.

In 1901, Bates was appointed one of the United States Judges for the Commonwealth of the Philippines . He held this office until his resignation in 1907 and then lived in retirement in Berkeley.

He died there on March 12, 1909, as a result of an illness that he contracted while serving in the Philippines. He left a wife and a son. His grave is in Smithland Cemetery in Smithland , Iowa .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Biography of the Bar of Orleans County, Vermont , by Frederick W. Baldwin, 1886, pp. 241-243
  2. ^ Who's Who in New England , by Albert Nelson Marquis, Issue 1, 1909, p. 85
  3. ^ The New England Magazine , America Company Publishers, Boston, Issue 33, September 1905 – February 1906, 1906, 746
  4. ^ Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography , edited by the American Publishers' Association, Chicago, Issue 1, 1909, p. 261
  5. ↑ the Journal of the National Encampment , Published by the Grand Army of the Republic, Issue 21-23, 1887, page 27
  6. ↑ The town of St. Johnsbury, Vt .: A Review of One Hundred Twenty-five Years to the Anniversary Pageant of 1912 , edited by The Cowles Press, St. Johnsbury, 1912, pp. 441-442
  7. ^ Vermont School Report , edited by the Vermont Department of Education, 1872, 186
  8. ↑ Gazetteer of Caledonia and Essex Counties, vt. 1764-1887 , compiled and edited by Hamilton Child, 1897, p. 54
  9. ↑ Journal of the Senate of the State of Vermont , edited by the Vermont General Assembly, 1881, 465
  10. ^ Journal of the Senate of the State of Vermont , edited by the Vermont General Assembly, 1886, pp. 5, 328
  11. Jump up ↑ Successful Vermonters: A Modern Gazetteer of Caledonia, Essex, and Orleans Counties , by William Hartley Jeffrey, Higginson Book Co., 1904, pp. 54-56
  12. ^ Vermont Historical Reader , by Edward Conant, Tuttle Company, 1907, 166
  13. ^ Newspaper article, The Republican League , New York Times, February 16, 1888
  14. ^ Official Proceedings of the Republican National Convention , edited by the Congregation, 1900, 78
  15. ^ Albany Law Journal , edited by Albany Law School, Issue 63–65, (January 1901 to January 1902), 1902, 166
  16. ^ War Department Annual Reports , edited by the United States War Department, 1909, p. 616
  17. ^ Newspaper article, Work on Islands Fatal to Jurist, San Francisco Call, March 13, 1909
  18. ^ Law Notes , edited by Edward Thompson Company, Issue 13, April 1909 to March 1910, 1910, 35
  19. ^ Newspaper article, An Eminent Son of Vermont , Boston Evening Transcript, March 15, 1909
  20. ↑ VermontCivilWar.Org Database , Soldiers credited to, born in, or buried in Derby, VT, accessed December 4, 2011

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personal data
SURNAME Bates, Henry C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bates, Henry Clay (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American lawyer and politician who was the 40th lieutenant governor of Vermont (1898-1900)
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH Derby Line , Vermont
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1909
Place of death Berkeley , California