Bates family

Bates
The grave of Benjamin Bates IV located in the Mount Auburn Cemetery in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Current regionNew England
Place of originLydd, Kent, England
Connected familiesAlden Family
Gilbert Family
Estate(s)The Campus of Bates College
Frye Street Historic District

The Bates family is an American political and banking family from Maine and Massachusetts whose members include a member of the 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 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 political Gilbert family and indirectly to the Alden family, the first family on the Mayflower.

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