Seth Merrill Gates

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Seth Merrill Gates (1800-1877) was an American lawyer, born at Winfield, New York. He was admitted to the bar in 1827, and was a member of the State Assembly in 1832. A Whig, he was an antislavery member of the twenty-sixth and twenty seventh U. S. Congresses from 1839 to 1843. In 1843 he drafted the protest signed by the Whigs in Congress against the annexation of Texas. In 1848 he was the unsuccessful candidate on the Free Soil ticket for Lieutenant Governor of New York. Due to his pronounced hostility to slavery, a southern planter offered $500 for his apprehension.

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• Seth Merrill Gates at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New York 1839-1843

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