Bates Cooke (December 23, 1787 – May 31, 1841) was an American lawyer and politician.

Life

He was the son of Captain Lemuel Cooke who had fought in the

American Revolutionary War The American Revolutionary War (April 19, 1775 – September 3, 1783), also known as the Revolutionary War or American War of Independence, was a major war of the American Revolution. Widely considered as the war that secured the independence of t ...

. Bates and his brother Lathrop participated in the

War of 1812 The War of 1812 (18 June 1812 – 17 February 1815) was fought by the United States of America and its indigenous allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in British North America, with limited participation by Spain in Florida. It bega ...

. Bates Cooke was Supervisor of the Town of

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in 1814. Then he studied law, was

admitted to the bar An admission to practice law is acquired when a lawyer receives a license to practice law. In jurisdictions with two types of lawyer, as with barristers and solicitors, barristers must gain admission to the bar whereas for solicitors there are dist ...

about 1815 and commenced practice in Lewiston. He was elected as an Anti-Mason to the 22nd United States Congress, and served from March 4, 1831 to March 3, 1833. Bates and Lathrop Cooke were partners of the

Lewiston Railroad The Lewiston Railroad Company was an early railroad in Lewiston, NY, running to Niagara Falls, NY. The railroad eventually became a part of the New York Central Railroad system. History On May 6, 1836, The Lewiston Rail-Road Company was incorpo ...

Company, which connected with the

Lockport and Niagara Falls Railroad The New York Central Railroad was a railroad primarily operating in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The railroad primarily connected greater New York and Boston in the east with Chicago and St. Louis in the Mid ...

in 1835. He was

New York State Comptroller The New York State Comptroller is an elected constitutional officer of the U.S. state of New York and head of the New York state government's Department of Audit and Control. The New York State Comptroller is the highest-paid state auditor or ...

from 1839 to January 1841 when he resigned because of his bad health. Subsequently, he was appointed a bank commissioner and died in office soon after. He was buried at the Oak Wood Cemetery in Lewiston.

Sources

Google Books
''The New York Civil List'' compiled by Franklin Benjamin Hough (pages 34 and 39; Weed, Parsons and Co., 1858) (giving the impression that Cooke was appointed bank commissioner in May 1840, but in fact he was appointed under the act of May 1840"only after his resignation as Comptroller)
Bates Cooke
on Political Graveyard
An episode from the Revolutionary War
in ''

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'' on April 8, 1883 (

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)
Lewiston history

External links

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Historic houses in Lewiston, among them Cooke's on 755 Center Street {{DEFAULTSORT:Cooke, Bates 1787 births 1841 deaths People from Wallingford, Connecticut Anti-Masonic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) New York State Comptrollers People from Lewiston, New York 19th-century American railroad executives American people of the War of 1812 New York (state) lawyers Town supervisors in New York (state) 19th-century American politicians