Ezekiel Bacon

Ezekiel Bacon
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 12th district
In office November 2, 1807 – March 3, 1813
Preceded by	Barnabas Bidwell
Succeeded by	Daniel Dewey
Personal details
Born	September 1, 1776 Boston, Massachusetts
Died	Utica, New York
Resting place	Forest Hill Cemetery
Political party	Democratic-Republican

Ezekiel Bacon (September 1, 1776 – October 18, 1870) was an American lawyer and politician from Massachusetts and New York.

Life

He was a son of John Bacon and Elizabeth (Goldthwaite) Bacon He graduated from Yale College in 1794. Then he attended Litchfield Law School and studied law with Nathan Dane in Beverly, Massachusetts. He was admitted to the bar in 1800 and commenced practice in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. He was a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1805 to 1806.

Bacon was elected as a Democratic-Republican to the 10th United States Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Barnabas Bidwell and took his seat on November 2, 1807. He was re-elected to the 11th and 12th United States Congresses, holding office until March 3, 1813. He was the Chairman of the Committee on Ways and Means (12th Congress).

He was Chief Justice of the Court of Common Pleas for the Western District of Massachusetts from 1811 to 1814, and Comptroller of the U.S. Treasury from 1814 to 1815.

In 1816, he removed to Utica, New York, and was appointed an associate judge of the Oneida County Court in 1818. He was a member of the New York State Assembly in 1819, and a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1821. In 1826, he ran again for Congress, but was defeated by the incumbent Henry R. Storrs.

At time of his death he was the oldest surviving Member of Congress and the last representative of the administration of President James Madison. He was buried at the Forest Hill Cemetery, Utica.

Judge and Congressman William J. Bacon was his son.

References

• Barlow, William, and David O. Powell. “Congressman Ezekiel Bacon of Massachusetts and the Coming of the War of 1812.” Historical Journal of Western Massachusetts 6 (Spring 1978): 28-41.

• Ezekiel Bacon at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

External links

• Ezekiel Bacon at Find a Grave

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Barnabas Bidwell	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Massachusetts's 12th congressional district 1807–1813	Succeeded by Daniel Dewey

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