Ezekiel Bacon

Ezekiel Bacon (born September 1, 1776 in Boston , Massachusetts , †  October 18, 1870 in Utica , New York ) was an American politician . Between 1807 and 1813 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Ezekiel Bacon was the son of Congressman John Bacon (1738-1820) and the father of William J. Bacon (1803-1889), who represented New York State in Congress . After elementary school, he studied at Yale College until 1794 . After a subsequent law degree at Litchfield Law School and under the private guidance of Nathan Dane in Beverly and his admission to the bar in 1800, he began to work in this profession in Stockbridge . Politically, he became a member of the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson in the late 1790s . In 1805 and 1806 he was a member of the House of Representatives from Massachusetts .

After the resignation of MP Barnabas Bidwell , Bacon was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , at the by-election due for the twelfth seat of Massachusetts , where he took up his new mandate on September 16, 1807. After two re-elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1813 . During this time the British-American War began in 1812 . From 1811 to 1813, Bacon chaired the Committee on Ways and Means . From 1811 to 1814, during his time in Congress, he was presiding judge on the Court of Common Pleas for the western part of Massachusetts. From February 1814 to February 1815 he served as an auditor ( Comptroller of the Treasury ) at the US Treasury Department .

In 1816 Bacon moved to Utica, New York State, where he became an appellate judge in 1818. A year later he became a member of the New York State Assembly . In 1821 he took part as a delegate at a meeting to revise the constitution of his new home state. In 1824 he sought unsuccessfully to return to Congress. In the following decades he no longer appeared politically. Ezekiel Bacon died on October 18, 1870 at the age of 94 in Utica, the last member of the government of President James Madison under whom he was the auditor of the tax authorities.

Web links

• Ezekiel Bacon in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

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