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词条 Sanford Bates
释义

  1. Education

  2. Early career

  3. Political career

  4. Legislative career

  5. 1917 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention

  6. Corrections career

  7. References

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| name =Sanford Bates
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| caption = Sanford Bates, c. 1930s
| office =Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives
24th Suffolk District[1]
| term_start =1912[1]
| term_end =1914[1]
| predecessor =
| successor =
| office3 = Delegate to the 1917 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention[4]
| term_start3 = June 6, 1917[5]
| term_end3 = 1919[2]
|party= Republican[1]
| predecessor3 =
| successor3 =
| birth_date =July 17, 1884
| birth_place = Boston, Massachusetts[3]
| death_date ={{d-da|September 8, 1972|July 17, 1884}}
| death_place =
|residence=
| occupation =
| spouse =
| children =
|alma_mater= Boston English High School, Y.M.C.A. Evening Law School[3]
|profession =Attorney[3]
}}Sanford Bates (July 17, 1884 in Boston, Massachusetts – September 8, 1972) was an American politician and public administrator who served as the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Prisons (1930–1937), a subdivision of the United States Department of Justice.[4]

Education

Bates attended Boston public schools graduating from English High School,[3] and from the Y.M.C.A. Evening Law School, now Northeastern University.[3][5]

Early career

Before he became an attorney, Bates worked as a clerk in the Boston Street Department.[3]

Political career

Early in his career Bates was active in the local Republican party, he was a member of the Lincoln club, the Republican club of Boston's Ward 24, serving as a member of the Ward 24 Republican Committee in 1910-1911.[3]

Legislative career

Bates served in both houses of the Massachusetts General Court (1912-1917). From 1912 to 1914[1] Bates represented the 24th Suffolk District in the Massachusetts House of Representatives.[3] From

1917 Massachusetts Constitutional Convention

In 1916, the Massachusetts legislature and electorate approved a calling of a Constitutional Convention.[6] In May 1917,[6] Bates was elected to serve as a member of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention of 1917, representing the 19th Suffolk District.[7] Bates was a member of the Convention's Committee on Liquor Traffic.[8]

Corrections career

On November 1, 1918 Bates was appointed as the Commissioner of Penal Institutions in Boston (1917-1919),[1] then appointed as Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Corrections in 1919 by then-Governor Calvin Coolidge. Bates served there until 1929 when he became the first Superintendent of Prisons for the newly created Federal Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Department of Justice, through January 31, 1937.[9]

From 1945 until his semi-retirement in 1954 he headed yet another prison system, the New Jersey Department of Corrections.

Among many other titles, positions and honors, Bates was the president of the American Prison Association in 1926.

References

1. ^{{Citation|last=Bridgman| first=Arthur Milnor| title =A Souvenir of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, Boston | page = 60. | publisher = A. M. (Arthur Milnor) Bridgman| location = Stoughton, MA | year = 1919 }}
2. ^{{Citation|last=Bridgman| first=Arthur Milnor| title =A Souvenir of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, Boston | page = 67. | publisher = A. M. (Arthur Milnor) Bridgman| location = Stoughton, MA | year = 1919 }}
3. ^{{Citation| title =Who's Who in State Politics, 1912 | page = 108. | publisher=Practical Politics | location = Boston, MA | year = 1912}}
4. ^[https://archon.shsu.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=2&q= "Sanford Bates Collection, 1906-1972"] SHSU Special Collections & University Archives. Retrieved 2015-2-22.
5. ^{{cite book|last=Mcshane|first=M.|title=Encyclopedia of American Prisons|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wlje5poN3IQC&pg=PA82|accessdate=7 September 2012|date=1 February 1996|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=978-0-8153-1350-2|pages=82–}}
6. ^{{Cite book|year = 1919 | title =Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts | pages = 7 | publisher = Wright & Potter printing co., state printers| location = Boston, MA}}
7. ^{{Cite book|year = 1919 | title =Journal of the Constitutional Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts | pages = 12 | publisher = Wright & Potter printing co., state printers| location = Boston, MA}}
8. ^{{Citation|last=Bridgman| first=Arthur Milnor| title =A Souvenir of the Massachusetts Constitutional Convention, Boston | page = 25. | publisher = A. M. (Arthur Milnor) Bridgman| location = Stoughton, MA | year = 1919 }}
9. ^{{cite web|url=http://www.bop.gov/about/history/directors.jsp|title=Former Bureau of Prisons Directors|publisher=Bureau of Prisons|accessdate=8 September 2012|deadurl=yes|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120915080622/http://www.bop.gov/about/history/directors.jsp|archivedate=15 September 2012|df=}}
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