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| | Biographies of Sebastian County, Arkansas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09) |
 | | Judge James Woodson Bates, brother of Frederick and Edward Bates, of national notoriety, was born in Goochland County, Va., about 1788, and died at his home in Crawford (now Sebastian) County, Ark., in the year 1846. |
 | | After leaving Congress, Bates removed to the newly settled town of Batesville, which was named after him, and there resumed the practice of law. |
 | | In the fall of 1835 he was elected to the constitutional convention, and contributed his ability and learning in the formation of the organic law of the State of Arkansas. |
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