ROBERT LOW BACON
Bacon, Robert Low
(1884-1938), a Representative from New York; born in Jamaica Plains, Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., July 23, 1884;
attended the public schools; was graduated from Harvard University in 1907 and from its law school in 1910; was an
employee of the United States Treasury Department in 1910 and 1911; moved to Old Westbury, N.Y., in 1911 and engaged
in the banking business in New York City 1911-1922; delegate to several State conventions; delegate to the
Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1920; attended the business men’s training camp at Plattsburg in 1915;
served on the Texas border with the New York National Guard in 1916; during the First World War served with the
United States military forces from April 24, 1917, to January 2, 1919, attaining the rank of major; awarded the
Distinguished Service Medal; commissioned in the United States Officers’ Reserve Corps with the rank of lieutenant
colonel in 1919; promoted to colonel in January 1923 and served until his death; elected as a Republican to the
Sixty-eighth and to the seven succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until his death at Lake Success,
Long Island, N.Y., en route from a visit to New York City, September 12, 1938; interment in Arlington National
Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Son of Martha Waldron (Cowdin) Bacon and Robert Bacon
Married, April 14, 1913, to Virginia Murray
Born: Sept. 6, 1890 Massachusetts
Children:
Alexandra Bacon b. March 4, 1914 Massachusetts
Virginia Bacon b. abt 1917 Massachusetts
Martha Bacon b. abt 1919 Massachusetts
Sources:
New York Passenger Lists, 1820-1957 U.S. Federal Census The Political Graveyard
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