Robert Bacon (politician, 1860)

Robert Bacon

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

Commons : Robert Bacon - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

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 .

personal data
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

[1] 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 .