Kearton Coates
{{short description|American politician}}
Kearton Coates (May 13, 1820 – April 16, 1893) was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly.
He was born in Gunnerside, England. He moved to Platteville, Wisconsin, in 1842 and to Linden, Wisconsin, in 1844.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vLvVAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA467 |title=Official Directory.|year=1876|publisher=The Legislative Manual of the State of Wisconsin 1876|access-date=2013-10-18}} He and his wife had 15 children.{{cite news|title=Wisconsin to the Front|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11327118/wisconsin_births/|newspaper=The Waterloo Press|date=May 9, 1889|page=6|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = May 29, 2017}} {{Open access}} Coates is buried in Edmund, Wisconsin.
Career
Coates became a member of the Assembly in 1875.{{cite news|title=The Legislature of 1875|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/11304062/wi_legislature_1875/|newspaper=Green Bay Press-Gazette|date=January 16, 1875|page=1|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = May 28, 2017}} {{Open access}} Previously, Coates was Chairman and Assesor of Linden and Register of Deeds and Superintendent of the Poor of Iowa County, Wisconsin. In 1873, he was an unsuccessful candidate for county judge. He was a Republican.{{cite news|title=The Legislature of 1875|url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/20433718/1875_wisconsin_legislature/|newspaper=The Representative|date=November 20, 1874|page=3|via = Newspapers.com|access-date = May 28, 2018}} {{Open access}}
References
{{reflist}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Coates, Kearton}}
Category:People from Richmondshire (district)
Category:English emigrants to the United States
Category:19th-century English people
Category:Politicians from Platteville, Wisconsin
Category:People from Linden, Wisconsin
Category:Republican Party members of the Wisconsin State Assembly