Gaspar Griswold Bacon

Background

Bacon was born in Jamaica Plain, Boston on March 7, 1886 to Robert Bacon.

Education

Bacon received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College in 1908, he then went on to earn his law degree from in 1912.

Career

And the 51st Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts from 1933 to 1935. Bacon had a brother, Robert L. Bacon. In 1912, Bacon actively campaigned for Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Party.

Bacon was in the United States forces sent to Mexico under General Pershing in 1916.

He was involved in the founding of the Military School at Harvard College in 1919. In 1920, he was a supporter of Leonard Wood"s campaign for the Republican nomination for president and was a delegate to the Republican National Convention that year.

Bacon was elected to the Massachusetts State Senate in 1924. He served there until becoming Lieutenant Governor.

He was also a lecturer on the staff of Boston University in the late 1920s.

Bacon became the Massachusetts State Senate president in 1928, and Lieutenant Governor in 1932. Bacon was in the Field Artillery Officers" Reserve Corps. During World World War II Bacon was a Lieutenant Colonel on General George Patton"s staff where he served for three years and ten months, in the G5, as the Chief of the Government Affairs Branch.

Bacon died on Christmas Day, December 25, 1947 in Dedham, Massachusetts.

Politics

Democratic Party, Republican Party.

Connections

Father:

Robert Bacon

Mother:

Martha (Cowdin) Bacon

Spouse:

Priscilla Toland

child:

Robert Bacon

child:

William Benjamin Bacon

child:

Gaspar Griswold Bacon