Mark R. Bacon

Mark Reeves Bacon ( * February 29, 1852 in Phillipstown, White County, Illinois; † August 20, 1941 in Pasadena, California ) was an American politician. In 1917, he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Mark Bacon attended the public schools of his home. He then worked as a teacher in 1871 in Bolivar (Missouri ). After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1876 admitted to the bar he began in Fairfield (Illinois ) to work in his new profession. In 1882, he first moved to Orlando in 1886 and to Jacksonville in Florida. There he was doing business. In 1895, Bacon was sent to the Wayne County, Michigan, where he worked for the company Co. Michigan alkali.

Politically, Bacon member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1916, he was in the second electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he succeeded the Democrat Samuel Beakes took on 4 March 1917 he had defeated in the election. Beakes but put against the outcome of the election opposition one. After this had been upheld, Bacon had to cede to his predecessor on December 13, 1917 from his position in Congress again. During his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, the United States entered the First World War in April 1917.

In 1918, Mark Bacon waived a possible renewed candidacy for Congress. Instead, he withdrew into retirement, which he spent in Wyandotte. He died on 20 August 1941 in his second home in Pasadena.

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