The Biographical Dictionary of America/Bacon, Ezekiel

BACON, Ezekiel, jurist, was born in Boston, Mass., Sept. 1, 1776. He was graduated at Yale in 1794; studied law at Litchfield, Conn., and engaged in practice in Stockbridge, Mass. He was a member of the state legislature, 1806-'07, and a representative in the llth, 12th and 13th congresses. In 1813 he was appointed chief justice of the court of common pleas for western Massachusetts, and President Madison made him first comptroller of the United States treasury. In 1816 he took up his residence in Utica, N.Y., where he held many prominent public offices, including those of member of assembly, judge of the court of common pleas, and member of the state constitutional convention of 1821. In 1843 he published "Recollections of Fifty Years." Yale conferred on him the degree of A. M. in 1870. He died in Utica. N.Y., Oct. 18, 1870.