Isaac C. Bates

Isaac Chapman Bates ( born January 23, 1779 Granville, Hampden County, Massachusetts, † March 16, 1845 in Washington DC) was an American politician who represented the state of Massachusetts in both chambers of Congress.

After he had received as a boy private lessons, Isaac Bates attended Yale College and received his degree there in 1802. After taking in the Bar Association began in 1808 as a lawyer practicing in Northampton. This year began with membership of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts 's political career; he remained there until 1809.

However, it took several years to Bates again became politically active. On 4 March 1827 he moved to the National Republican Party at the House of Representatives of the United States and remained there after repeated re-election to March 3, 1835 before he no longer took. Following the resignation of U.S. Senator John Davis, he returned on 13 January 1841 in the Congress back; in the meantime he had joined the Whigs. He also won the election on its own term of office, but he died before the end of March 1845 in Washington. During his time in the Senate Bates was among other things, Chairman of the Pension Committee.