Isaac C. Bates
Isaac Chapman Bates was an American politician from Massachusetts.
He was born in Granville, Massachusetts, and graduated from Yale College in 1802. He practiced law in Northampton, Massachusetts, in 1808.Political career
He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives.Bates was elected to the United States House of Representatives, where he was an Anti-Jacksonian. He was chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Military Pensions in the Twenty-first Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1834.He was 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. He was chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Pensions ; interment in Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Massachusetts.
