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Bacon family of Massachusetts and New York

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• Robert Bacon (1860-1919) — of New York, New York County, N.Y. Born in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., July 5, 1860. Son of William B. Bacon and Emily C. (Low) Bacon; married, October 10, 1883, to Martha Waldron Cowdin; father of Robert Low Bacon and Gaspar Griswold Bacon. Republican. Financier; U.S. Secretary of State, 1909; U.S. Ambassador to France, 1909-12; candidate in primary for U.S. Senator from New York, 1916; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I. Presbyterian. English ancestry. Died, from complications following surgery for mastoiditis, in the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, Manhattan, New York County, N.Y., May 29, 1919. Interment at Mt. Auburn Cemetery, Cambridge, Mass.
  • See also: NNDB dossier.
  
  
• Virginia Murray Bacon — also known as Virginia M. Bacon; Virginia Murray — of Westbury, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y. Married, April 14, 1913, to Robert Low Bacon. Republican. Presidential Elector for New York, 1920; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1936, 1940 (alternate). Female. Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
  
  
• Robert Low Bacon (1884-1938) — also known as Robert L. Bacon — of Westbury, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y. Born in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., July 23, 1884. Son of Martha Waldron (Cowdin) Bacon and Robert Bacon; married, April 14, 1913, to Virginia Murray; brother of Gaspar Griswold Bacon. Republican. Banker; colonel in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to Republican National Convention from New York, 1920; U.S. Representative from New York 1st District, 1923-38; died in office 1938. Episcopalian. Member, American Legion; Freemasons; Knights Templar; Shriners; Elks; Moose. Died, of a heart attack, at the state police barracks, Lake Success, Nassau County, Long Island, N.Y., September 12, 1938. Interment at Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
  • See also: congressional biography.
  
  
• Gaspar Griswold Bacon (1886-1947) — also known as Gaspar G. Bacon — of Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk County, Mass.; Dedham, Norfolk County, Mass. Born in Jamaica Plain, Boston, Suffolk County, Mass., March 7, 1886. Son of Robert Bacon and Martha (Cowdin) Bacon; brother of Robert Low Bacon; married, July 16, 1910, to Priscilla Toland. Republican. Lawyer; major in the U.S. Army during World War I; delegate to Republican National Convention from Massachusetts, 1920, 1932 (alternate), 1936, 1940; member of Massachusetts state senate, 1925-32; Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts, 1933-35; candidate for Governor of Massachusetts, 1934; director, Southern Railway Co., Eliot Savings Bank; major in the U.S. Army during World War II. Episcopalian. Member, American Bar Association; Freemasons; Knights Templar; Knights of Pythias; Elks; Moose; Odd Fellows; Reserve Officers Association. Died in Dedham, Norfolk County, Mass., December 24, 1947. Burial location unknown.
  
  

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