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Edward Bates (September 4, 1793 – March 25, 1869) 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.
Edward Bates (born Sept. 4, 1793, Goochland County, Va., U.S.—died March 25, 1869, St. Louis, Mo.) was a lawyer and Whig politician who joined the Republican Party before the U.S. Civil War and served as Abraham Lincoln’s attorney general.
Attorney General under President Lincoln, Edward Bates was somewhat estranged from the rest of the cabinet before his resignation in 1864. In 1860, he was promoted as a candidate for president at the Republican National Convention.
President Lincoln’s cabinet included all of his major rivals for the Republican nomination for President in 1860—William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Simon Cameron and Edward Bates.
Oct 24, 2022 · In 1853 he became judge of the St. Louis land court, presided over the Whig Convention in Baltimore in 1856, became prominent as an anti-slavery man, and in 1859 was considered for the Presidency. On March 5, 1861, Bates was appointed Attorney General of the United States by President Lincoln.
A St. Louis attorney and whig leader, Edward Bates, a moderate on slavery, opposed the lecompton constitution and repeal of the missouri compromise. In 1860 he sought the Republican presidential nomination, and from 1861 to 1864 he was President abraham lincoln'sattorney general and most conservative adviser.
Edward Bates served as attorney general for most of Abraham Lincoln’s presidency. Born into a Virginia slave-holding family on September 4, 1793, Bates moved to St. Louis following a year’s militia service during the War of 1812.
