Lindon Bates Jr.
Lindon Wallace Bates, Jr. (July 17, 1883 – May 7, 1915) was an American engineer and politician from New York who died on the Lusitania.
Life
Bates was born on July 17, 1883 in Portland, Oregon, the son of engineer Lindon Wallace Bates and Josephine White.[1]
In 1908, Bates was elected to the New York State Assembly as a Republican, representing the New York County 29th District. He served in the Assembly in 1909[2] and 1910.[3] In the 1912 United States House of Representatives election, he was a candidate the New York's 17th congressional district as a Progressive and Independence League, but lost to John F. Carew.[4] He ran again in the 1914 United States House of Representatives election for the same district, this time under the Republican, Progressive, and Independence League ticket, but he lost to Carew again.[5]
References
- ^ Obituary Record of Graduates of Yale University, Deceased from June, 1910 to July 1915. New Haven, C.T.: Yale University. 1915. pp. 894–895 – via Google Books.
- ^ Murlin, Edgar L. (1909). The New York Red Book. Albany, N.Y.: J. B. Lyon Company. pp. 112–113 – via Google Books.
- ^ Murlin, Edgar L. (1910). The New York Red Book. Albany, N.Y.: J. B. Lyon Company. pp. 114–115 – via Google Books.
- ^ Murlin, Edgar L. (1913). The New York Red Book. Albany, N.Y.: J. B. Lyon Company. p. 673 – via Google Books.
- ^ Murlin, Edgar L. (1915). The New York Red Book. Albany, N.Y.: J. B. Lyon Company. p. 708 – via Google Books.