Bacon, John Edmund
lawyer, congressman, was born March 3, 1832, in Edgefield, S. C. He studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1853 and commenced the practice of law. In 1857 he was appointed secretary of legation at St. Petersburg, Russia; in 1860 entered the confederate service as a private; and served throughout the civil war, rising to the rank of major. In 1868 he was elected district judge; and in 1870 was an unsuccessful candidate for congress. In 1872 he removed to Columbia, S. C.; in 1878 was elected a representative in the state legislature, and devoted himself to securing the re-establishment of the South Carolina college, which end he accomplished after a long and laborious struggle. In 1885 he was appointed United States charge d'affaires to Paraguay and Uruguay.