He was warmly supported by his own State, and for a time it seemed that the opposition to Governor Seward might concentrate on him.

In the National Republican Convention, 1860, he received forty-eight votes on the first ballot, but when it became apparent that Abraham Lincoln was the favorite, Mr.
Bates withdrew his name.

Mr.Lincoln appointed Judge Bates Attorney General, and while in the Cabinet he acted a dignified, safe and faithful part.

In 1864, he resigned his office and returned to his home in St.Louis, where he died in 1869, surrounded by his weeping family.
"-- --loved at home, revered abroad.
Princes and lords are but the breath of kings, 'An honest man's the noblest work of God.'" On the 7th of February, 1844, the suit for my freedom began.

A bright, sunny day, a day which the happy and care-free would drink in with a keen sense of enjoyment.