Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Ed. Bates” in article pos=58 of The Daily Dispatch: March 6, 1861., [Electronic resource]:

...sury; Simon Cameron, of Pennsylvania, Secretary of War; Montgomery Blair, of Maryland, Postmaster General; Gideon Wells, Secretary of the Navy; C. B. Smith, of Indiana, Secretary of the Interior, and Ed. Bates , of Missouri, Attorney General. The following sketches of these gentlemen will be interesting at this time: Mr. Seward was born in Orange county, in the State of New York, on the 16th of...
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