James Preston Bates

Birth Date

1810-04-28

Death Date

1877-11-30

Gender

Race Description

White

Entity Type

Person

Barren County, Kentucky, attorney, postmaster, and politician. Grayson County, Virginia, native. Married to Harriet Barrick Bates in Barren County in January 1834. Father of Virginia Bates, William Bates, James Bates, John Bates, George Bates, Edward Bates, and Frank Bates. Attorney in Barren County, Kentucky, in 1850. Postmaster at Glasgow, Kentucky, from April 3, 1858, to September 6, 1859. Resident in Barren County in 1860. Member of the convention of the provisional government at Russellville, Kentucky, in November 1861. Elected member of the Council of Ten for the provisional government. Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee for the provisional government of Kentucky. Member of the Committee on Military Affairs for the provisional government of Kentucky.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District No 2, p. 331A.
Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District No 2, p. 1054.
Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Warren County, Bowling Green Precinct, p. 31A.
Find A Grave, "COL James Preston Bates, I (1810-1877)," Memorial #180532393, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/1805323931 (accessed January 7, 2020).
Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Barren County Marriages, Film #000209752, p. 520 of microfilm.
Record of Appointment of Postmasters, 1832-1971. Records of the Post Office Department, NARA Series M841, RG 28, Barren County, Kentucky, Volume 28, p. 113 of microfilm.
Lewis Collins and Richard Collins, History of Kentucky, vol. 1 (Collins & Company, 1882), 353.
H. Levin, The Lawyers and Lawmakers of Kentucky (Chicago: The Lewis Publishing Company, 1897), 468.
“Douglas Sentiments,” Daily Courier (Louisville, Ky.), October 19, 1860.
Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, 331A.
KYR-0004-033-0001.
KYR-0004-033-0003.

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