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Edward Bates

Edward Bates was an American slave owner, lawyer and politician. He represented Missouri in the US House of Representatives and served as the U.S. Attorney General under President Abraham Lincoln. A member of the influential Bates family, he was the first US Cabinet appointee from a state west of the Mississippi River.

American - Lawyer | September 4, 1793 - March 25, 1869

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I long for the days of good honest crooks. — © Edward Bates

I long for the days of good honest crooks.

Edward Bates

Edward Bates

Ambition is a passion, at once strong and insidious, and is very apt to cheat a man out of his happiness and his true respectability of character

Edward Bates

Edward Bates

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