Background
Bates, Arthur Laban was born on June 6, 1859 in Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel P. and S. Josephine Bates.
United States representative lawyer politician
Bates, Arthur Laban was born on June 6, 1859 in Meadville, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of Samuel P. and S. Josephine Bates.
He studied under tutors and was graduated from Allegheny College in Meadville in 1880. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1882. He attended Oxford University 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 Republican National Convention in 1924. He died in Meadville in 1934.
Interment in Greendale Cemetery.
Mason.
Married Emily, daughter; children: Josephine Rusling, Arthur Rusling.