BATES, Isaac Chapman (1779-1845)
Whig of Massachusetts 
0th congressional district
Served in Senate 1839-1845
Served in House 1827-1835
Biography
Representative and a Senator from Massachusetts; born in Granville, Mass., January 23, 1779; tutored privately; graduated from Yale College in 1802; admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Northampton, Hampshire County, Mass., in 1808; member, Massachusetts state house of representatives, 1808-1809; elected as an Adams candidate to the Twentieth Congress; reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-First and to the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1827-March 3, 1835); chairman, Committee on Military Pensions (Twenty-first Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1834; elected as a Whig to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term ending March 3, 1841, caused by the resignation of John Davis and on the same day elected for the term commencing March 4, 1841, and served from January 13, 1841, until his death in Washington, D.C., March 16, 1845; chairman, Committee on Pensions (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses); interment in Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Mass.Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
