Henry Bacon (New York)

Henry Bacon (March 14, 1846 - March 25, 1915) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Born in Brooklyn, New York, Bacon attended the Mount Pleasant Academy in Sing Sing, the Episcopal Academy in Cheshire, Connecticut, and was graduated from Union College in 1865.He studied law.He was admitted to the bar in 1866 and commenced practice in Goshen, New York.

Bacon was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lewis Beach.He was reelected to the Fiftieth Congress and served from December 6, 1886, until March 3, 1889.He served as chairman of the Committee on Manufactures (Fiftieth Congress).He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first Congress.

Bacon was elected to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893).He served as chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency (Fifty-second Congress).He was an unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1892.He resumed the practice of law in Goshen.He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago in 1892. Corporation counsel of Goshen 1909-1915.He died in Goshen, New York, on March 25, 1915.He was interred in Slate Hill Cemetery.

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