Justice Bates (other)
Justice Bates *Barton Bates (1824–1892), associate justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri *Frederick Bates (politician) Frederick Bates (June 23, 1777 – August 4, 1825), was an American attorney and politician. He was elected in 1824 as the second governor of Missouri and died in office in 1825. Before that he had served as a justice of the Territorial Supr ...

Barton Bates
Joshua Barton Bates (February 29, 1824 – December 27, 1892) was a justice of the Supreme Court of Missouri from 1862 to 1865. Born in St. Louis, Missouri,Onward Bates, ''Bates, Et Al. of Virginia and Missouri'' (1914). Bates was the oldest of seventeen children born to Edward Bates and Julia Davenport Coalter (of whom only four lived to adulthood). He was named for his father's law partner, Joshua Barton, who had been killed in a duel. As a young man, Bates "dropped the Joshua from his name and was thenceforth known as Barton Bates". On March 29, 1849, Bates married Caroline Matilda Thatcher, with whom he had ten children. They settled in Cheneaux, Missouri. Bates was one of three judges appointed to the Missouri Supreme Court in 1862 to fill seats vacated by William Scott, William Barclay Napton, and Ephraim Ewing, who refused to sign loyalty oaths swearing loyalty to the United States during the American Civil War. The others appointed with Bates were William Van Ness Bay ...
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