page_title: Bates family
section_title: Members
hierarchical_section_title: Bates family / Members
caption_attribution_description: Benjamin Edward Bates (1808–1878)
context_page_description: 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.
caption: Industrialist Benjamin E. Bates IV
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