From 1933 to 1935, he was a reorganization consultant in Wisconsin before returning to Cutler-Hammer as a member of the board of directors and as company comptroller.
Bacon ended private life as the president and owner of Smith Steel Foundry Company from 1937 to 1941.
Bacon began his foray into public life in 1940 as the Republican National Committee representative from Wisconsin (a position he held until 1944).
In 1954, Bacon served a short term as Assistant to the Secretary of the Army for Canal Zone Affairs, and by 1955 had left to serve as Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army for Financial Management (a position he held until 1960.
[1] During this period, in 1958, Bacon was also a member of the Tolls Committee of the Saint Lawrence Seaway, participated in Operation Deep Freeze in Antarctica, and served as a member of the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin.