Bates family

This article is about the business and political family. For the television show, see Bringing Up Bates.
Bates
The grave of Benjamin Bates IV located in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Current regionNew England
Place of originLydd, Kent, England[1]
Connected familiesAlden Family
Gilbert Family
Estate(s)The Campus of Bates College
Frye Street Historic District
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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.

  1. ^ Firmin, Lois. Ancestors and Descendants of George and Margarte Bates MARTIN.