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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkBACON, Robert Low
(1884—1938)
BACON, Robert Low, a Representative from New York; born in Jamaica Plains, Boston, Mass., July 23, 1884; attended the public schools; was graduated from Harvard University in 1907 and from its law school in 1910; was an employee of the United States Treasury Department in 1910 and 1911; moved to Old Westbury, N.Y., in 1911 and engaged in the banking business in New York City 1911-1922; delegate to several State conventions; delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1920; attended the business men’s training camp at Plattsburg in 1915; served on the Texas border with the New York National Guard in 1916; during the First World War served with the United States military forces from April 24, 1917, to January 2, 1919, attaining the rank of major; awarded the Distinguished Service Medal; commissioned in the United States Officers’ Reserve Corps with the rank of lieutenant colonel in 1919; promoted to colonel in January 1923 and served until his death; elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until his death at Lake Success, Long Island, N.Y., en route from a visit to New York City, September 12, 1938; interment in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Memorial services held in the House of Representatives of the United States, together with remarks presented in eulogy of Robert Low Bacon, late a representative from New York. Seventy-sixth Congress, first session
. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1939.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Sixth International Conference of American States, Habana [sic], Republic of Cuba. Hearings before the Committee on Foreign Affairs, House of Representatives, Seventieth Congress, first session, on H.J. Res. 220, a resolution tendering the thanks of the American people and the Congress of the United States to the Honorable Charles Evans Hughes, Chairman of the Delegation of the United States of America to the Sixth International Conference of American States. March 27, 1928. Statement of Hon. Robert L. Bacon, a Representative in Congress from the State of New York
. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1928.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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