Show SENATOR BACON IS 18 DEAD georgia statesman expires after illness of ten days Wa washington illington augustus Octav lua dacon bacon united states senator from georgia for nearly nineteen years and chairman of the foreign relations committee since the of the democratic party march 4 1914 died in a hospital hero here saturday a after an illness of ten days lie he was the first united states senator elevated by oll dt IN Z M senator augustus Augut tua octavous Octav lus lua bacon vote of the people under the seventeenth constitutional amendment senator bacon was born in dryan bryan county georgia october 20 1839 and for many years made hla his home in alacon on being graduated from the university of georgia law department in 1860 lie he entered the confederate army and served during the campaigns of 1801 and 1862 as adjutant of the ninth georgia regiment in the army of northern virginia lie ho was first elected to the united states senate in 1894 reelected elected re in 1900 and again in 1907 by the legislature in 1913 he was unanimously reelected elected re in a general popular election being the first senator chosen by popular vote |