Augustus Octavius ​​Bacon

Augustus Octavius ​​Bacon

Augustus Octavius ​​Bacon (born October 20, 1839 in Bryan County , Georgia , † February 14, 1914 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician of the Democratic Party . From 1895 until his death, he sat for the US state of Georgia in the US Senate .

biography

Augustus Bacon was born in Bryan County, where he also spent his childhood. In 1859 he graduated from the University of Georgia with a law degree . During his student days he was a member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society fraternity .

During the Civil War , Bacon served in the Confederate States Army . After Georgia returned to the Union, he was a member of the Georgia House of Representatives from 1871 to 1886 . He presided over a large part of his tenure as speaker . In 1894 he was first elected as one of the two representatives of Georgia in the US Senate. He was re-elected three times. During his tenure in Congress , he was, among other things, chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee . Between 1911 and 1913, Bacon served several times as President pro tempore of the United States Senate , as Democrats and Republicans had agreed on this compromise solution due to the difficult majority situation. As a Senator, Bacon campaigned, among other things, for streets in Washington, DC to be named after the states. In 1908 Bacon was able to record a success: Brightwood Avenue was renamed Georgia Avenue . The former Georgia Avenue, a tactically insignificant street, was renamed Potomac Avenue.

Bacon died in Washington, DC at the age of 74. He was buried in Rose Hill Cemetery , Macon .

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• Augustus Octavius ​​Bacon in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Augustus Octavius Bacon in the database of Find a Grave (English)