An opponent of Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal, Bacon was defeated by Boston Mayor James Michael Curley.

Bacon was in the Field Artillery Officers' Reserve Corps, where he served as a captain and major during World War I.

[7][6] During World War II, Bacon was a lieutenant colonel on General George Patton's staff, where he served for three years and ten months, in the G5, as the chief of the Government Affairs Branch.

[7] Bacon died on Christmas Day, December 25, 1947, in Dedham, Massachusetts.

Bacon married Priscilla Toland on July 16, 1910, in St. Thomas' Church in Whitemarsh, Pennsylvania.