| LC control no. | n 2005213003 |
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| Personal name heading | Bates, Martin W. (Martin Waltham), 1786-1869 |
| Found in | NUCMC data from Historical Society of Delaware for Bates and Hillyard (Dover, Del.). Receipt book, 1816-1838 (Martin W. Bates, 1786-1869; merchant, lawyer, politician of Dover, Del.) Dickinson College WWW, Nov. 21, 2005 (Martin Waltham Bates; b. in Salisbury, Conn.; he taught school for some years, moving about in Maryland and then Delaware; he also studied medicine in Philadelphia before settling in Dover, Del., where he first pursued commerce unsuccessfully and then married into one of the most prestigious families in the area; studied law in the office of Thomas Clayton; admitted to the Dover bar and began a practice in the town in Oct. 1822; selected to complete the U.S. senate term of Whig John Middleton Clayton who had died suddenly in Nov. 1856; he served from Jan. 1857 to Mar. 1859) |
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