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Office of the Attorney General | Attorney General: Edward Bates | United States Department of Justice
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Faust Park - One hundred and forty-nine years ago, Edward Bates passed away in St. Louis at the age of 75. The younger brother of Frederick Bates, the second governor of Missouri,
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