Preceded by John H. Bagley, Jr. Citizenship United States Education Union College Succeeded by Ashbel P. Fitch Role Politician | Preceded by Moses D. Stivers Name Henry Bacon Succeeded by Moses D. Stivers Political party Democratic Party Party Democratic Party | |
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Born March 14, 1846
Brooklyn, New York ( 1846-03-14 ) Died March 25, 1915, Goshen, New York, United States | ||
Henry Bacon (March 14, 1846 – March 25, 1915) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York.
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Biography
Born in Brooklyn, New York, Bacon was the son of Daniel P. Bacon, and attended the Mount Pleasant Academy in Sing Sing, the Episcopal Academy in Cheshire, Connecticut. He was graduated from Union College in 1865; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1866. He commenced practice in Goshen, New York.
Career
Bacon was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lewis Beach as Representative of the fifteenth district of New York. He was reelected to the Fiftieth Congress and served from December 6, 1886, until March 3, 1889. During the Fiftieth Congress, he was chairman of the Committee on Manufactures. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress. He was elected to the Fifty-second Congress from March 4, 1891 to March 3, 1893, during which he served as chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency.
An unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1892, he resumed the practice of law in Goshen. He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago in 1892,and was on the Corporation counsel of Goshen from 1909 to 1915.
Death
Bacon died, of pneumonia, in Goshen, New York, on March 25, 1915 (age 69 years, 11 days). He is interred at Slate Hill Cemetery, Goshen, New York.