Background
Bacon was born in Phillipstown, Illinois and attended the public schools there.
United States representative lawyer politician
Bacon was born in Phillipstown, Illinois and attended the public schools there.
He studied law, was admitted to the bar on July 4, 1876, and commenced practice in Fairfield, Illinois.
He taught school at the Academy in Bolivar, Missouri in 1871. He was the city attorney of Fairfield and a delegate to several State conventions. He moved to Orlando, Florida, in 1882 and to Jacksonville, Florida, in 1886 and engaged in the abstract business.
Bacon presented credentials as a Republican Member-elect from Michigan"s 2nd congressional district to the United States House of Representatives for the Sixty-fifth Congress.
He served from March 4 until December 13, 1917, when he was succeeded by Democrat Samuel West. Beakes, who successfully contested the election. On April 5, 1917, he was one of the 50 representatives who voted against declaring war on Germany.
He was not a candidate for renomination in 1918, retiring to Wyandotte, Michigan. He died at his winter home in Pasadena, California, aged 89, and is interred at San Gabriel Cemetery, San Gabriel, California.