- Joe B. Bates
Joseph Bengal Bates (
October 29 ,1893 -September 10 ,1965 ) was a U.S. Representative fromKentucky .Born in
Republican, Kentucky , Bates attended the public schools and the Mountain Training School atHindman, Kentucky .He graduated from Eastern Kentucky State Teachers College at Richmond in 1916.He studied law.He taught in the rural schools ofKnott County, Kentucky , from 1912 to 1915,was high school superintendent atRaceland, Kentucky from 1917 to 1919,and worked as county clerk ofGreenup County, Kentucky from 1922 to 1938.Bates was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Fred M. Vinson .He was reelected to the Seventy-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served fromJune 4 ,1938 , toJanuary 3 ,1953 .He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1952, and unsuccessfully sought the Democratic nomination in 1956 for theUnited States Senate .He practiced law and was a resident ofGreenup, Kentucky .He died inAshland, Kentucky ,September 10 ,1965 .He was interred in Bellefonte Memorial Gardens,Flatwoods, Kentucky .References
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* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=6865008 Joe B. Bates] at Find-A-Grave
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