Arthur Laban Bates (June 6, 1859 – August 26, 1934) was a Republican member of the

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from the

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. Arthur L. Bates (nephew of

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) was born in

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. He studied under tutors and was graduated from

Allegheny College he, תגל ערבה ותפרח כחבצלת , mottoeng = "Add to your faith, virtue and to your faith, knowledge" ( 2 Peter 1:5)"The desert shall rejoice and the blossom as the rose" (Isaiah 35:1) , faculty = 193 ...

in Meadville in 1880. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1882. He attended

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in England, in 1882 and 1883. He commenced the practice of law in Meadville in 1884, and was also engaged in the newspaper publishing business in 1899. He served as city solicitor of Meadville from 1889 to 1896. Bates was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh and to the five succeeding Congresses. He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1912. He was a delegate to the International Peace Conference at Brussels in 1905 and at Rome in 1911. He resumed the practice of law and the publishing business in Meadville, and was also engaged in banking. He was a delegate to the

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1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20– 30 – Kuomintang in China h ...

. He died in Meadville in 1934. Interment in Greendale Cemetery.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bates, Arthur L. 1859 births 1934 deaths People from Meadville, Pennsylvania Baptists from Pennsylvania Allegheny College alumni Pennsylvania lawyers Alumni of the University of Oxford Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania American expatriates in the United Kingdom 19th-century American newspaper publishers (people) Burials at Greendale Cemetery