Henry Bacon (politician)

Henry Bacon

Henry Bacon (born March 14, 1846 in Brooklyn , New York , † March 25, 1915 in Goshen , New York) was an American lawyer and politician . He represented New York State in the US House of Representatives between 1887 and 1889 and between 1891 and 1893 .

Career

Henry Bacon was born about six weeks before the outbreak of the Mexican-American War in the then still separate city of Brooklyn. He attended Mount Pleasant Academy in Sing Sing, the Episcopal Academy in Cheshire ( Connecticut ) and graduated in 1865 at Union College in Schenectady . Then he studied law . He was admitted to the bar in 1866 and then began practicing in Goshen. Politically, he belonged to the Democratic Party .

He was elected to the United States House of Representatives in Washington, DC in a by-election on December 6, 1886 in the 15th constituency of New York to fill the vacancy created by the death of Lewis Beach . He was elected to the 50th Congress . In the congressional elections of 1888 he was defeated in his re-nomination and retired after the March 3, 1889 Congress of. As a congressman, he chaired the Committee on Manufactures during his final term . In 1890 he ran for the 52nd Congress . After a successful re-election, he succeeded Moses D. Stivers on March 4, 1891 . In his renewed candidacy in 1892 , however, he suffered a defeat and left the Congress after March 3, 1893. During that tenure, he chaired the Committee on Banking and Currency .

After his time in Congress he went back to his practice as a lawyer in Goshen. In 1892 he took part as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago . Between 1909 and 1915 he was Goshen's Corporation Counsel . He died there on March 25, 1915 and was then buried in Slate Hill Cemetery .

Web links

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

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