(July 1, 1890 – October 13, 1930) was a physician in Kentucky and Tennessee who served as a first lieutenant and an army doctor in 370th Infantry Regiment of 93rd Division during World War I. Bacote was born in Timmonsville, South Carolina, in a town ten miles from Florence.

[2] In 1917, Bacote began military service as a first lieutenant in the Army Reserve Corps and reported to the Fort Des Moines Medical Officers Training camp.

Fearing the threat of race riots coming from Camp Logan, Bacote and his unit were sent to France on the USS President Grant in 1918.

[3] Bacote fought alongside fellow medical school graduates, such as George Washington Antoine, and Claudius Ballard.

[4] Later, they moved to Kentucky, where Bacote practiced medicine, after hearing from his medical school that there were shortages of physicians.