The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bates, Martin W.

​BATES, Martin W., senator, was born at Salisbury. Conn. Feb. 24, 1787. He studied law, and removed to Dover, Del., where he engaged in practice. He served several terms in the state legislature; was a member of the state constitutional convention in 1850, and was elected to the U.S. senate to succeed Joseph P. Comegys, 1857. Bates served from December. 1858, to the end of Senator Clayton's term, March 4, 1859, acting on the committees of pensions and revolutionary pensions, and died at Dover, Del., Jan. 1, 1869.

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