John Bacon (politician)

John Bacon (born April 5, 1738 in Canterbury , Windham County , Colony of Connecticut , †  October 25, 1820 in Stockbridge , Massachusetts ) was an American politician . Between 1801 and 1803 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Bacon was the father of Congressman Ezekiel Bacon (1776-1870) from Massachusetts and the grandfather of William J. Bacon (1803-1889), who was Congressman for New York State . He grew up during the British colonial era and studied at Princeton College until 1765 . After studying theology and being ordained a clergyman, he worked in this profession in Boston between 1771 and 1775 . After a falling out with the local church administration, he gave up this job and moved to Stockbridge. After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began working in his new profession. Bacon joined the American Revolution and in 1777 became a member of the Revolutionary Committee of Correspondence, Inspection, and Safety . In 1779 and 1780 he was a delegate to meetings revising the Massachusetts Constitution . In 1780 he was one of the founding members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences . Between 1780 and 1798 he was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and a member of the State Senate on several occasions .

In the late 1790s, Bacon became a member of the Democratic Republican Party founded by Thomas Jefferson . In the 1800 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of Massachusetts , where he succeeded Theodore Sedgwick on March 4, 1801 . Until March 3, 1803 he was able to complete a legislative period in Congress , during which he was chairman of the election committee. From 1803 to 1806 Bacon sat again in the Senate of Massachusetts, of which he was president in 1806. At that time he was also the presiding judge at the court of appeal. In 1809 he became presiding judge on the Massachusetts Supreme Court . He died in Stockbridge on October 25, 1820.

Web links

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

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