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John Lewis Bates (September 18 1859 – June 8 1946) was born in North Easton Massachusetts to Rev. Lewis Benton Bates a Methodist minister and Louisa D. (Field) Bates. He attended public school in New Bedford Chelsea Taunton and eventually the Boston Latin School. He then attended the Methodist-affiliated Boston University earning an A.B. in 1882 and went on to graduate from Boston University School of Law in 1885. Over the next decade Bates practiced law in Boston.
