Show SENATOR BACON IS 13 DEAD georgia statesman expires after illness of ten days day washington augustus octavous Octav lua lus 13 benator georgia for fomo arly nineteen years yeara ad and chairman of the foreign relations COOT coin since the of the democratic party parts march 4 1 1914 died in a hospital hero here saturday after an illness of ten daye lie he was as the first united states senator elevated by dl 71 JV XO i k a A 4 ok i A senator augustus octavous Octav lus bacon vote of the people under the seventeenth constitutional amendment senator dacon bacon was n as born in bryan county georgia october 20 1339 and for many years cara made his home homa in macon on being graduated from the university of georgia law department in 1860 he entered tho the confederate erato army and served during tho the cam patens of 1801 and i as aa adjutant of the ninth georgia regiment in the army of northern virginia he was first elected to the united batea senate in 1894 reelected elected re in 1900 and again in 1907 by the leals lature in 1913 he was unanimously re elected lo in a general popular olec elec tion being the first senator chosen by popular vote |