The 16th President of the United States named which man the U.S. Attorney General after arguing a case for Polly Berry?
Polly Berry:  In 1842 Berry sued for the freedom of her daughter Lucy Ann Berry, based on "partus sequitur ventrem" (the child is born into the status of the mother), which she won in 1844 in a case argued by Edward Bates, the future U.S. Attorney General under President Abraham Lincoln. Abraham Lincoln: Abraham Lincoln ( ; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865.
Edward Bates