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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—MassachusettsEzekiel BACON
(1776-1870)
BACON, Ezekiel, (son of
John Bacon and father of William Johnson Bacon), a Representative
from Massachusetts; born in Boston, Mass., September 1, 1776;
received a liberal schooling and was graduated from Yale College in
1794; attended the Litchfield Law School and afterwards studied
with Nathan Dane in Beverly; was admitted to the bar in 1800 and
commenced practice in Stockbridge, Mass.; member of the State house
of representatives in 1805 and 1806; elected as a Republican to the
Tenth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of
Barnabas Bidwell; reelected to the Eleventh and Twelfth Congresses
and served from September 16, 1807, to March 3, 1813; chairman,
Committee on Ways and Means (Twelfth Congress); chief justice of
the court of common pleas for the western district of Massachusetts
1811-1814; First Comptroller of the United States Treasury from
February 11, 1814, to February 28, 1815, when he resigned; moved to
Utica, Oneida County, N.Y., in 1816; appointed associate justice of
the court of common pleas in 1818; member of the State assembly in
1819; delegate to the State constitutional convention in 1821;
unsuccessful candidate for election in 1824 to the Nineteenth
Congress; at time of his death he was the oldest surviving Member
of Congress and the last representative of the administration of
President Madison; died in Utica, N.Y., October 18, 1870; interment
in Forest Hill Cemetery.
Bibliography
Barlow, William, and David O. Powell. “Congressman Ezekiel
Bacon of Massachusetts and the Coming of the War of 1812.”
Historical Journal of Western Massachusetts 6 (Spring 1978):
28-41.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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