JOSEPH BENGAL BATES
BATES, Joseph Bengal, a Representative from Kentucky; born in Republican, Ky., October 29, 1893; attended the public schools and the Mountain Training School at Hindman, Ky.; was graduated from Eastern Kentucky State Teachers College at Richmond in 1916; studied law; taught in the rural schools of Knott County, Ky., 1912-1915; high school superintendent at Raceland, Ky., 1917-1919; county clerk of Greenup County, Ky., 1922-1938; elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-fifth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Fred M. Vinson; reelected to the Seventy-sixth and to the six succeeding Congresses and served from June 4, 1938, to January 3, 1953; unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1952, and was unsuccessful for the Democratic nomination in 1956 for the United States Senate; engaged in the practice of law and was a resident of Greenup, Ky.; died in Ashland, Ky., September 10, 1965; interment in Bellefonte Memorial Gardens, Flatwoods, Ky.
| Member Name | Birth-Death | Position | Party | State | Congress (Year) |
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| BATES, Joseph Bengal | 1893-1965 | Representative | Democrat | KY | 75 (1937-1938) |
| Representative | Democrat | KY | 76 (1939-1940) |
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| Representative | Democrat | KY | 77 (1941-1942) |
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| Representative | Democrat | KY | 78 (1943-1944) |
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| Representative | Democrat | KY | 79 (1945-1946) |
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| Representative | Democrat | KY | 80 (1947-1948) |
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| Representative | Democrat | KY | 81 (1949-1950) |
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| Representative | Democrat | KY | 82 (1951-1952 |
Source: Biographical Directory of United States Congress