Member Biography

Samuel Davis Bates 

Samuel Davis Bates 
Sessions Office Position District Party
1889-1890       27 Republican
1891-1892       27 Republican

COUNTIES: Northumberland, Snyder, Union  


Biography

11/15/1833 - 12/28/1906

Samuel Davis Bates (R27) Northumberland, Snyder and Union Counties 1889-1892

Early Life: 

Samuel Davis Bates, born November 15, 1833, Springfield, Windsor County, Vermont; Troy Academy, New York; machinist; relocated, Union County, Pennsylvania; employed, Slifer, Walls, and Shriner Manufacturing; superintendent, Central Manufacturing Company, Lewisburg; Lewisburg school director; Lewisburg town council; lieutenant, Civil War 1862-1863; board of directors, Lewisburg Nail Works, Lewisburg Bridge Company, Central Manufacturing Company; superintendent, Lewisburg Waterworks; married, Mary Bates (d.1871), married, Mary Agusta Wolfe Bates, children, Elizabeth Tower Bates Hoffman, Juliet P Bates; elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 1889-1892; died, December 28, 1906 (aged 73), asthma attack, Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania, interment Lewisburg Cemetery, Lewisburg, Union County, Pennsylvania.

Early Career:

Lieutenant, 1862 Emergency Militia, Third Regiment; lieutenant, 28th Regiment, 1863, Emergency Militia

Professional titles; business ownership; board memberships; local government; club memberships:

Member, Methodist Church; member, board directors, Lewisburg Nail Works, Lewisburg Bridge Company Central Manufacturing Company; superintendent, Lewisburg Water Works.                                                                                               

Pennsylvania Politics:

Lewisburg school director; Lewisburg town council.

Elected, Republican, Pennsylvania State Senate, 27th district, Northumberland, Snyder and Union Counties 1889-1892, committee assignments, Centennial Affairs, Federal Relations, Vice and Immorality.

Legacy:

First Republican elected to the Pennsylvania State Senate from the 27th district, post 1874.

Cited: 

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members B". Wilkes University Election Statistics Project. Wilkes University.

Smull’s Legislative Handbook, (1889). Cochran, T.B., (Editor) Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, pages 687, 693-695, Biographical Sketches of Senators, page 655.

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