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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkHenry BACON
(1846-1915)
BACON, Henry, a
Representative from New York; born in Brooklyn, N.Y., March 14,
1846; attended the Mount Pleasant Academy in Sing Sing, the
Episcopal Academy in Cheshire, Conn., and was graduated from Union
College in 1865; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1866 and
commenced practice in Goshen, N.Y.; elected as a Democrat to the
Forty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
Lewis Beach; reelected to the Fiftieth Congress and served from
December 6, 1886, until March 3, 1889; chairman, Committee on
Manufactures (Fiftieth Congress); unsuccessful candidate for
reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress; elected to the
Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893); chairman,
Committee on Banking and Currency (Fifty-second Congress);
unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1892; resumed the
practice of law in Goshen; delegate to the Democratic National
Convention at Chicago in 1892; corporation counsel of Goshen
1909-1915; died in Goshen, N.Y., on March 25, 1915; interment in
Slate Hill Cemetery.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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