Ezekiel Bacon
Ezekiel Bacon ( born September 1, 1776 in Boston, Massachusetts, † October 18, 1870 in Utica, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1807 and 1813, he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
Ezekiel Bacon was the son of Congressman John Bacon (1738-1820) and the father of William J. Bacon (1803-1889), who represented the state of New York in Congress. After primary school he studied until 1794 at Yale College. After a subsequent study of law at the Litchfield Law School and under private instruction by Nathan Dane in Beverly and in 1800 made his admission to the bar he began in Stockbridge to work in this profession. Politically, he was a member of the end of the 1790s by Thomas Jefferson founded the Democratic-Republican Party. In the years 1805 and 1806 he was a member of the House of Representatives of Massachusetts.
Following the resignation of Mr Barnabas Bidwell Bacon was at the due election for the twelfth seat of Massachusetts as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on September 16, 1807. After two re- elections he could remain until March 3, 1813 Congress. In this time of the beginning of the British -American War of 1812 fell. From 1811 to 1813 Bacon led the Committee on Ways and Means. In the years 1811-1814, ie during his time in Congress, he was Chief Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the western part of the State of Massachusetts. From February 1814 to February 1815 he served as an auditor ( Comptroller of the Treasury) from the U.S. Treasury.
1816 Bacon moved to Utica, New York, where he appeal judges was in 1818. A year later he became a deputy in the New York State Assembly. In 1821 he participated in a meeting to revise the constitution of his new home state as the delegate. In 1824, he unsuccessfully sought his return to Congress. In the following decades it is no longer politically have appeared. Ezekiel Bacon died on October 18, 1870 at the age of 94 years in Utica as the last member of the administration of President James Madison, under which he had been auditor of the financial authority.