Mark R. Bacon

Mark R. Bacon

Mark Reeves Bacon (born February 29, 1852 in Phillipstown , White County , Illinois , †  August 20, 1941 in Pasadena , California ) was an American politician . In 1917 he represented the state of Michigan in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Mark Bacon attended public schools in his home country. He then worked as a teacher in Bolivar ( Missouri ) in 1871 . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1876, he began to work in Fairfield (Illinois) in his new profession. In 1882 he moved first to Orlando and in 1886 to Jacksonville , Florida . There he did business. In 1895, Bacon came to Wayne County , Michigan, where he worked for the Michigan Alkali Co. company.

Politically, Bacon was a member of the Republican Party . In the 1916 congressional elections , he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the second constituency of Michigan , where he succeeded Democrat Samuel Beakes on March 4, 1917 , whom he had defeated in the election. But Beakes appealed against the outcome of the election. After this was granted, Bacon had to relinquish his mandate in Congress to his predecessor on December 13, 1917 . During his tenure in the US House of Representatives, the United States entered World War I in April 1917 .

In 1918, Mark Bacon declined to run for Congress again. Instead, he withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Wyandotte . He died on August 20, 1941 in his second home in Pasadena.

Web links

• Mark R. Bacon in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Mark R. Bacon in the database of Find a Grave (English)