Robert L. Bacon

Robert Low Bacon (born July 23, 1884 in Jamaica Plain , Boston , Massachusetts , † September 12, 1938 in Lake Success , New York ) was an American politician and officer in the United States Army . Between 1923 and 1938 he represented New York State in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Robert Low Bacon, son of Robert Bacon and brother of Gaspar G. Bacon , attended public schools. He graduated from Harvard University in 1907 and from Harvard Law School in 1910. He then worked for the US Treasury Department in 1910 and 1911 . Last year he moved to Old Westbury, New York to do banking in New York City. He took part in the Business Men's Military Training Camp in Plattsburgh in 1915 . He then served in the New York National Guard on the Texas border in 1916 . After the United States entered the First World War , he enlisted in the US Army on April 24, 1917. During his service, he was awarded the Army Distinguished Service Medal . When he was released on January 2, 1919, he held the rank of major . That same year he joined the United States Officers' Reserve Corps as a Lieutenant Colonel . He was promoted to colonel in January 1923 and served until his death.

Politically, he belonged to the Republican Party . He took part in several state conventions. In 1920 he represented his state as a delegate at the Republican National Convention in Chicago . In the 1922 congressional election , Bacon was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first constituency of New York , where he succeeded Frederick C. Hicks on March 4, 1923 . Bacon was re-elected seven times in a row. During this time, the Davis – Bacon Act was passed in 1931 and Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected President in 1932 . Bacon was a leading opponent of his New Deal reforms in Congress. On the way from a visit to New York City he died on September 12, 1938 of complications from a myocardial infarction in Lake Success. His body was buried in Arlington National Cemetery .

His brother Gaspar G. Bacon was President of the Massachusetts Senate between 1929 and 1932 and Vice-Governor of Massachusetts between 1933 and 1935 . The actor Gaspar G. Bacon junior , better known as David Bacon, was his nephew.

Robert L. Bacon in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

personal data
SURNAME	Bacon, Robert L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Bacon, Robert Low
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American officer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH	July 23, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH	Jamaica Plain , Boston , Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH	September 12, 1938
Place of death	Lake Success , New York