Born in Brooklyn, New York, Bacon was the son of Daniel P. Bacon and attended the Mount Pleasant Academy in Sing Sing and the Episcopal Academy in Cheshire, Connecticut.

He was graduated from Union College in 1865; studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1866.

[1] Bacon was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lewis Beach as Representative of the fifteenth district of New York.

He served as delegate to the Democratic National Convention at Chicago in 1892 and was the Corporation Counsel of Goshen from 1909 to 1915.

[4][7] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress