Political career
Massachusetts House of Representatives
He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives (1808–1809).United States House of Representatives
Bates was elected to the United States House of Representatives (March 4, 1827 – March 3, 1835), where he was an Anti-Jacksonian. He was chairman of the U.S. House Committee on Military Pensions in the Twenty-first United States Congress, Twenty-first Congress. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in United States House elections, 1834, 1834.United States Senate
He was elected as a Whig Party (United States), Whig to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy in the term ending March 3, 1841, caused by the resignation of John Davis and on the same day elected for the term commencing March 4, 1841, and served from January 13, 1841, until his death. He was chairman of the U.S. Senate Committee on Pensions (Twenty-seventh and Twenty-eighth Congresses); interment in Bridge Street Cemetery, Northampton, Massachusetts.See also
*List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899)Sources and external links
*"Memoir of Hon. I.C. Bates, Late United States Senator from Massachusetts." American Whig Review 3 (February 1846): 186–192. {{DEFAULTSORT:Bates, Isaac Chapman 1779 births 1845 deaths Members of the Massachusetts House of Representatives United States senators from Massachusetts Yale College alumni Massachusetts Federalists Massachusetts Whigs 19th-century American politicians Whig Party United States senators National Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Massachusetts People from Granville, Massachusetts