James Bates (September 24, 1789 – February 25, 1882) was a United States representative from Maine.
He was born in Greene, Massachusetts (now in Maine), on September 24, 1789.
[1] He studied medicine at Harvard Medical School.
He died, aged 92, on February 25, 1882, in Yarmouth, Maine.
His interment is in the Old Oak Cemetery, Norridgewock, Maine.