Joseph Bates was an American seaman and revivalist minister. He was a co-founder and developer of Sabbatarian Adventism, whose followers would later establish the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Bates is also credited with convincing James White and Ellen G. White of the validity of the seventh-day Sabbath.
- Occupation
- sailor, Seventh-day Adventist minister
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- July 8, 1792
- Died
- March 19, 1872
