Show SENATOR BACON IS DEAD georgia statesman expires after illness of ten days washington augustus octavius Octav lus Sus hacon dacon united states senator from georgia for nearly nineteen years and chairman ot f the foreign relations is corn com cittee since the of 0 the democratic party march 4 1914 died in a hospital here saturday after an illness of 0 ten days he was the first united states senator elevated by dl A M 4 P M I 1 ya r ism A t Y 4 senator augustus octavius Octav lua bacon vote of the people under the seventeenth constitutional amendment senator bacon was born bom in bryan county georgia october 20 1839 and for many years made his home in alacon on being graduated from the university of georgia law department in esgo he entered the confederate army and served during the campaigns of and 1862 as adjutant of the ninth georgia regiment in the army of northern virginia he 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 copular vote |