From Subject to Citizen: Tarleton Bates and Evolution of Republican Man on the Pennsylvania Frontier

<p>This dissertation is written as a microhistory, and it focuses on the life, career, and death of Tarleton Bates, third Prothonotary of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. Bates was born in Virginia, but he left in 1794 as a soldier in the Virginia militia to suppress the Whiskey Rebellion. Bates decided to remain in Pittsburgh, where he became an influential leader of the local Republican Party. His politics eventually involved him in a number of disputes, and in 1806 he was forced to fight a duel with a local merchant named Thomas Stewart. The microhistory describes Bates life within the context of American history during the early Republic.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

History

Year dc:date.available

2010

Author dc:creator

• Grogan, Leo Jon

• Bates
• Duel
• Gender
• Pennsylvania
• Pittsburgh
• Politics
• United States History

Repository record dc:identifier

https://ecommons.luc.edu/luc_diss_2yr/2

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:ecommons.luc.edu:luc_diss_2yr-1001