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BACON, Robert Low was born on July 23, 1884 in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Massachusetts.
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Robert Low Bacon
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Harvard College, Bachelor of Arts, 1907; Harvard University Law School, Bachelor of Laws, 1910; Married; United States Treasury Department, 1910-1911; Investment Banking Business., 1911-1922.
Career
In 1911 he moved to Old Westbury, New York to engage in banking in New York City. In 1916, he worked with the New York National Guard at the Texas border. In 1919, he was commissioned to the United States Officers’ Reserve Corps with a promotion to lieutenant colonel and later to colonel in 1923. Bacon was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois in 1920. He was elected a Republican to t in 1922 and served from 1923 until his death in 1938 though still continuing his military career in the Officers' Reserve Corps during his years in the House of Representatives.
Achievements
Politics
Bacon was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois in 1920. He was elected a Republican to the sixty-eighth congress in 1922 and served from 1923 until his death in 1938 though still continuing his military career in the Officers' Reserve Corps during his years in the House of Representatives.
Membership
Member Republican State Committee, New York. Member 68th to 75th Congresses (1923-1939). 1st New York District.
Member Republican Congressional Committee, Attended original Plattsburg T.C., 1915. Member of the board visitors United States Naval Academy. Member 150th Anniversary Commission Battle of Bunker Hill.
Connections
Married Virginia Murray, April. Children: Alexandra Murray, Virginia Murray, Martha.
- Father:
- Robert Bacon
- Mother:
- Martha Waldron Cowdin
- Brother:
- Gaspar Griswold Bacon
- nephew:
- David Bacon
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Born
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Religion
Episcopalian
Education
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1907 - 1910
Career
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1910 - 1911
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1922 - 1938