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<p><b>Frederick Bates</b> (June 23, 1777 &#8211; August 4, 1825), was an American <a href="/wiki/Lawyer" title="Lawyer">attorney</a> and politician. He was <a href="/wiki/1824_Missouri_gubernatorial_election" title="1824 Missouri gubernatorial election">elected in 1824</a> as the second governor of <a href="/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a> and died in office in 1825. Before that he had served as a justice of the Territorial Supreme Court for <a href="/wiki/Michigan_Territory" title="Michigan Territory">Michigan Territory</a>, was appointed by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a> as Secretary of the Louisiana Territory and started to build his political base in <a href="/wiki/St._Louis" title="St. Louis">St. Louis</a>.
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<p>Frederick Bates was born in 1777 into the slave-holding class in <a href="/wiki/Goochland_County,_Virginia" title="Goochland County, Virginia">Goochland County, Virginia</a>. Though a Quaker, Bates and his family were lifelong slaveholders. Bates was schooled privately at his family's <a href="/w/index.php?title=Belmont_Manor_house&amp;action=edit&amp;redlink=1" class="new" title="Belmont Manor house (page does not exist)">Belmont plantation</a> by tutors. Later he went to college and read the law with an established firm.  He settled in Detroit in 1797 and became its first postmaster in 1803.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">&#91;1&#93;</a></sup> He was a member of the <a href="/wiki/Bates_family" title="Bates family">Bates family</a> along with his brothers <a href="/wiki/Edward_Bates" title="Edward Bates">Edward</a> and <a href="/wiki/James_Woodson_Bates" title="James Woodson Bates">James Woodson Bates</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">&#91;2&#93;</a></sup>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Career">Career</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Bates_(politician)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2" title="Edit section: Career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<p>After working as an attorney, Bates started his political career when appointed as a justice of the Territorial Supreme Court for <a href="/wiki/Michigan_Territory" title="Michigan Territory">Michigan Territory</a> in <a href="/wiki/Detroit" title="Detroit">Detroit</a>.  He received a significant promotion when the <a href="/wiki/Burr_conspiracy" title="Burr conspiracy">Aaron Burr conspiracy</a> was uncovered. In February 1807, while Bates was in Washington, President <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson">Thomas Jefferson</a> appointed him to be Secretary of the <a href="/wiki/Louisiana_Territory" title="Louisiana Territory">Louisiana Territory</a>, as well as a recorder of land titles.<sup id="cite_ref-Foley2014_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Foley2014-3">&#91;3&#93;</a></sup> As secretary, he was also <a href="/wiki/Commander_in_chief" class="mw-redirect" title="Commander in chief">commander in chief</a> of the militia.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">&#91;4&#93;</a></sup> He held this position in <a href="/wiki/St._Louis" title="St. Louis">St. Louis</a> until 1812. Bates helped determine whether conflicting French, Spanish, and American land claims in the territory would be upheld, as it had been subject to three differing political systems.<sup id="cite_ref-Beers1989_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Beers1989-5">&#91;5&#93;</a></sup>
</p><p>Jefferson had already decided on the returning explorer and fellow Virginian <a href="/wiki/Meriwether_Lewis" title="Meriwether Lewis">Meriwether Lewis</a> as governor of the huge new Louisiana Territory, which approximately equaled the size of the existing United States.  Bates preceded Lewis to St. Louis and became a powerful political force in the new territory; he was a political rival of Lewis until the latter's death while traveling from St. Louis to Washington on business in 1809. Later, as Secretary of the newly formed <a href="/wiki/Missouri_Territory" title="Missouri Territory">Missouri Territory</a> (1812–1821), he became acting governor in the frequent absences of Territorial Governor <a href="/wiki/William_Clark" title="William Clark">William Clark</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Foley2014_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Foley2014-3">&#91;3&#93;</a></sup>
</p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Missouri_gubernatorial_election,_1824" class="mw-redirect" title="Missouri gubernatorial election, 1824">August 1824 election</a>, Bates was elected the second governor of <a href="/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a>.  He died in office in August 1825 in <a href="/wiki/Chesterfield,_Missouri" title="Chesterfield, Missouri">Chesterfield, Missouri</a>, due to a short illness thought to be <a href="/wiki/Pneumonia" title="Pneumonia">pneumonia</a>. Bates was buried at the family cemetery on the Thornhill estate near St. Louis.
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Marriage_and_family">Marriage and family</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Bates_(politician)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=3" title="Edit section: Marriage and family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Thornhill_Bates.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Thornhill_Bates.jpg/200px-Thornhill_Bates.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Thornhill_Bates.jpg/300px-Thornhill_Bates.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/18/Thornhill_Bates.jpg/400px-Thornhill_Bates.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1600" data-file-height="1200" /></a><figcaption>Main house at Thornhill, Governor Bates estate.</figcaption></figure>
<p>In 1819, Bates married Nancy Opie Ball (1802–1877), daughter of a wealthy Virginia colonel. The couple had four children, Emily Caroline (1820–1891), Lucius Lee (1821–1898), Woodville (1823–1840) and Frederick Jr. (1826–1862).<sup id="cite_ref-BryanMacgunnigle2009_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BryanMacgunnigle2009-6">&#91;6&#93;</a></sup>
</p><p>During his time in <a href="/wiki/Missouri" title="Missouri">Missouri</a>, Bates acquired nearly 1000 acres (4&#160;km<sup>2</sup>) of land, which he called Thornhill. He also acquired several enslaved men, women, and children. He had built a Federal-style home with high ceilings for summer ventilation, fine woodwork and a sophisticated floor plan; all this would have been familiar to Bates from his childhood home, Belmont, in <a href="/wiki/Goochland_County,_Virginia" title="Goochland County, Virginia">Goochland County, Virginia</a>. The Thornhill estate still exists today and can be viewed by the public. It is located in <a href="/wiki/Faust_Park" title="Faust Park">Faust County Park</a> in <a href="/wiki/Chesterfield,_Missouri" title="Chesterfield, Missouri">Chesterfield, Missouri</a>.
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="Legacy_and_honors">Legacy and honors</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Bates_(politician)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=4" title="Edit section: Legacy and honors"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
<p>Governor Bates is the namesake of <a href="/wiki/Bates_County,_Missouri" title="Bates County, Missouri">Bates County, Missouri</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">&#91;7&#93;</a></sup>
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<h2><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Frederick_Bates_(politician)&amp;action=edit&amp;section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></h2>
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<li id="cite_note-Beers1989-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Beers1989_5-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite id="CITEREFHenry_Putney_Beers1989" class="citation book cs1">Henry Putney Beers (1 December 1989). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=CxO3RcGScEUC&amp;pg=PA281"><i>French and Spanish Records of Louisiana: A Bibliographical Guide to Archive and Manuscript Sources</i></a>. LSU Press. pp.&#160;281–. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8071-2793-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8071-2793-3"><bdi>978-0-8071-2793-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=French+and+Spanish+Records+of+Louisiana%3A+A+Bibliographical+Guide+to+Archive+and+Manuscript+Sources&amp;rft.pages=281-&amp;rft.pub=LSU+Press&amp;rft.date=1989-12-01&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-8071-2793-3&amp;rft.au=Henry+Putney+Beers&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DCxO3RcGScEUC%26pg%3DPA281&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrederick+Bates+%28politician%29" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-BryanMacgunnigle2009-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-BryanMacgunnigle2009_6-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite id="CITEREFWilliam_Smith_BryanMacgunnigle2009" class="citation book cs1">William Smith Bryan; Macgunnigle (1 June 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=WZtq0GysnfsC&amp;pg=PA131"><i>Rhode Island Freemen, 1747-1755</i></a>. Genealogical Publishing Com. pp.&#160;131–. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a>&#160;<a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8063-0753-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8063-0753-4"><bdi>978-0-8063-0753-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Rhode+Island+Freemen%2C+1747-1755&amp;rft.pages=131-&amp;rft.pub=Genealogical+Publishing+Com&amp;rft.date=2009-06-01&amp;rft.isbn=978-0-8063-0753-4&amp;rft.au=William+Smith+Bryan&amp;rft.au=Macgunnigle&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DWZtq0GysnfsC%26pg%3DPA131&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrederick+Bates+%28politician%29" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite id="CITEREFEaton,_David_Wolfe1916" class="citation book cs1">Eaton, David Wolfe (1916). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ"><i>How Missouri Counties, Towns and Streams Were Named</i></a>. The State Historical Society of Missouri. pp.&#160;<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ/page/n19">208</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=How+Missouri+Counties%2C+Towns+and+Streams+Were+Named&amp;rft.pages=208&amp;rft.pub=The+State+Historical+Society+of+Missouri&amp;rft.date=1916&amp;rft.au=Eaton%2C+David+Wolfe&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fbub_gb_RfAuAAAAYAAJ&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFrederick+Bates+%28politician%29" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<td style="width: 30%; text-align: center;" rowspan="1">Succeeded&#160;by<div style="font-weight: bold"><a href="/wiki/Abraham_J._Williams" title="Abraham J. Williams">Abraham J. Williams</a></div>
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