John Edmund Bacon (1830 – 1897) was an American lawyer, politician, diplomat and judge, from South Carolina, in the late 19th century.

Bacon was a member of South Carolina's provisional congress in 1862,[1] served the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, and was a diplomat in South America.

He married Rebecca Calhoun Pickens while serving as Secretary of the American Legation in St. Petersburg, Russia.

[2] After the Civil War they resided in Columbia, South Carolina.

He paid tribute to John Parsons Carroll, his former law partner.