Robert Bacon (politician, 1860)
Robert Bacon (born July 5, 1860 in Jamaica Plain , Massachusetts , † May 29, 1919 in New York City ) was an American politician and diplomat .
biography
Robert Bacon was born in 1860 in the then still independent Jamaica Plain, which later became a district of Boston . After graduating from Harvard University , he worked in business, including for JP Morgan .
From 1905 to 1909 he served as the 26th Assistant Secretary of State in the time of US President Theodore Roosevelt and thus as Deputy Secretary of State Elihu Root . From January to March 1909 he was the successor to Root himself Secretary of State in the Roosevelt cabinet . As foreign minister he received the approval of the Senate for the canal treaties with Colombia and Panama . After changing the presidency from Theodore Roosevelt to William Howard Taft , Bacon was sent to France as ambassador of the United States in 1909 , where he remained until 1912.
Bacon planned to take part in the RMS Titanic's maiden voyage on April 10, 1912 with his wife and daughter . They intended to board in Cherbourg . But since his successor Myron T. Herrick arrived too late in France, they were forced to take a later ship and therefore took part in another maiden voyage, that of the French ocean liner France on April 20, 1912.
His son Robert (1884-1938) was a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1923 to 1938 and his other son Gaspar (1886-1947) was Vice-Governor of Massachusetts from 1933 to 1935 .
literature
- Edward S. Mihalkanin: Robert Bacon. In: Derselbe (Ed.): American Statesmen: Secretaries of State from John Jay to Colin Powell . Greenwood Publishing 2004, ISBN 978-0-313-30828-4 , pp. 41f.
Web links
- Robert Bacon in nndb (English)
- Robert Bacon in the Miller Center of Public Affairs of the University of Virginia (English)
Individual evidence
- Jump up ↑ John P. Eaton, Charles A. Haas, Torsten Müller: Titanic, Triumph and Tragedy. A chronicle in texts and pictures . Heyne, Munich 1997, ISBN 3-453-12890-7 , pp. 71 .
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SURNAME | Bacon, Robert |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American politician and diplomat |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 5, 1860 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Jamaica Plain , Massachusetts |
DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1919 |
Place of death | New York City |