Robert Bacon is a retired educator and Democratic politician from Fort Collins, Colorado.

He received a master's degree in history from University of Northern Colorado in 1961[3] while teaching in Poudre School District, where he remained until 1991, when he took a post at Front Range Community College for four years and then retiring.

In southeast Fort Collins, he was honored with the naming of Bacon Elementary School.

He was then elected to the State House 53rd District in 1996, where he represented western Fort Collins, and rose to the post of Assistant Minority Leader.

Bacon was elected to his first term in the State Senate in 2004, defeating Republican Ray Martinez, a former Fort Collins mayor, and Libertarian Mark Brophy.