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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkBACON, William Johnson
(1803—1889)
BACON, William Johnson, (son of Ezekiel Bacon and grandson of John Bacon), a Representative from New York; born in Williamstown, Mass., February 18, 1803; moved with his parents to Utica, N.Y., in 1815; was graduated from Hamilton College, Clinton, N.Y., in 1822; studied law and was graduated from the Litchfield Law School in 1824; was admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Utica, Oneida County, N.Y.; appointed city attorney in 1837; member of the State assembly in 1850; elected trustee of Hamilton College in 1851; elected judge of the State supreme court of the fifth district in 1854 and served until 1870; elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); was not a candidate for renomination in 1878; resumed the practice of law; died in Utica, N.Y., July 3, 1889; interment in Forest Hill Cemetery.
Bacon, William Johnson. The Continental Congress: Some of its actors and their doings. With the results thereof. An address before the Oneida historical society, at their annual meeting on the 31st day of December, 1880
. Utica, N.Y.: E. H. Roberts & co., book and job printers, 1881.
———. The early bar of Oneida: A lecture, delivered at the request of the members of the bar of Oneida County, at the Court house in the city of Utica, October 18, 1875
. Utica, N.Y.: T.J. Griffiths, printer, 1876.
———. Memorial of William Kirkland Bacon, late adjutant of the Twenty-sixth regiment of New York state volunteers
. Utica, N.Y.: Roberts, printers, 1863.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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