Henry Bacon (New York)

Henry Bacon ( born March 14, 1846 in Brooklyn, New York, † March 25, 1915 in Goshen, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. He represented between 1887 and 1889 and 1891-1893 the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Henry Bacon was born about six weeks before the outbreak of the Mexican - American War in the then still independent city of Brooklyn. He attended the Mount Pleasant Academy at Sing Sing, the Episcopal Academy in Cheshire (Connecticut) and graduated in 1865 from Union College in Schenectady. Then he studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1866 and then began practicing in Goshen. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

He was in a by-election on 6 December 1886, 15 electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, there to fill the vacancy that was created by the death of Lewis Beach. We chose him in the 50th Congress. In the congressional elections of 1888 he suffered in his renewed candidacy defeat and retired after March 3, in 1889 the Congress of. As a Congressman he had presided over the Committee on Manufactures during his last term in office. In 1890 he ran for the 52nd Congress. After a successful re-election, he entered on March 4, 1891, the successor of Moses D. Stivers. In his renewed candidacy in 1892, but he was defeated and retired after March 3, 1893 the Congress of. During this tenure, he presided over the Committee on Banking and Currency.

After his conference time he went to Goshen back to his work as a lawyer after. He took 1892 as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in part. Between 1909 and 1915 he was Corporation Counsel of Goshen. He died there on March 25, 1915, and was then buried in the Slate Hill Cemetery.