''Henry Bacon'' (March 14, 1846 – March 25, 1915) was an American lawyer and politician who served as a

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from New York in the late 19th Century.

Biography

Born in

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, Bacon was the son of Daniel P. Bacon and attended the Mount Pleasant Academy in Sing Sing and the

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. He was graduated from

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in 1865; studied law, and was

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in 1866. He commenced practice in

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Career

Bacon was elected as a

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to the Forty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lewis Beach as Representative of the fifteenth district of New York. He was reelected to the Fiftieth Congress and served from December 6, 1886, until March 3, 1889. During the Fiftieth Congress, he was chairman of the Committee on Manufactures. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress. He was elected to the Fifty-second Congress from March 4, 1891, to March 3, 1893, during which he served as chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency. An unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1892, he resumed the practice of law in Goshen. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago in 1892 and was the Corporation Counsel of Goshen from 1909 to 1915.

Death

Bacon died of pneumonia on March 25, 1915, in

. He is buried in Slate Hill Cemetery in Goshen.

Family

In 1867, Bacon married Helen Brandreth, the daughter of George Brandreth and they remained married until her death in 1905. In 1906, he married Susan Randall, the daughter of Samuel J. Randall, and they were married until his death. With his first wife, Bacon was the father of a daughter, Florence, who was the wife of Brandreth Symonds.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Bacon, Henry 1846 births 1915 deaths Union College (New York) alumni Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from New York (state) Politicians from Brooklyn People from Goshen, New York 19th-century American legislators