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Bacon, Augustus Octavius

was born Oct. 20, 1839, in Bryan county, Ga.

He was frequently a member of state democratic conventions; was president of the state democratic convention in 1880, and was delegate from the state at large to the national democratic convention in Chicago in 1884; in 1868 he was elected presidential elector on the democratic ticket; in 1871 was elected to the Georgia house of representatives, of which body he has served as a member for fourteen years, and during eight years was speaker. He was several times a candidate for the democratic nomination for governor of Georgia; and was elected to the United States senate as a democrat in 1894. His term of service will expire March 3, 1901.