John Bacon (Massachusetts)

John Bacon ( born April 5, 1738 in Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut, † October 25, 1820 in Stockbridge, Massachusetts ) was an American politician. Between 1801 and 1803 he represented the state of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

John Bacon was the father of Congressman Ezekiel Bacon (1776-1870) from Massachusetts and grandfather of William J. Bacon (1803-1889), congressman for the state of New York was. He grew even during the British colonial period and studied until 1765 at the Princeton College. After studying theology and his ordination to the clergy he was 1771-1775 in this occupation worked in Boston. After a falling out with the local church leadership, he gave up this activity and moved to Stockbridge. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in his new profession. Bacon joined in the American Revolution and was in 1777 a member of the revolutionary Committee of Correspondence, Inspection and Safety. In the years 1779 and 1780 he was a delegate at meetings to revise the constitution of Massachusetts. Between 1780 and 1798 he was several times delegate in the House of Representatives from Massachusetts and a member of the State Senate.

End of the 1790s Bacon was a member of the founded by Thomas Jefferson Democratic- Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1800 he was the first electoral district of Massachusetts in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Theodore Sedgwick on March 4, 1801. Until March 3, 1803, he was able to complete a term in Congress, during which he was Chairman of the Election Committee. From 1803 to 1806 Bacon was sitting again in the Massachusetts Senate, which he was president in 1806. At that time he was also Chief Judge of the Court of Appeal. In 1809 he became Chief Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. He died on October 25, 1820 in Stockbridge.