{{Short description|American diplomat}} '''John F. Bacon''' (February 2, 1789 – February 25, 1860) was an American lawyer, diplomat and politician from New York.
== Early life == Bacon was born in Great Barrington, Berkshire County, Massachusetts.
== Career == Bacon served as Clerk of the New York State Senate<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E3sFAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA122 |title=The New York Civil List |publisher=Weed, Parsons and Company |year=1858 |editor-last=Hough |editor-first=Franklin B. |location=Albany, New York |pages=122 |language=en}}</ref> from January 1814 to January 1840.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=January 1860 |title=Obituaries |volume=4 |pages=157 |work=The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History and Biography of America |editor-last= |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jw4IAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA157 |access-date=1 September 2023 |last1=Dean |first1=John Ward |last2=Folsom |first2=George |last3=Shea |first3=John Gilmary |last4=Stiles |first4=Henry Reed |last5=Dawson |first5=Henry Barton }}</ref>
In March 1840, he was appointed U.S. Consul at Nassau, Bahamas,<ref>{{Cite news |date=July 23, 1853 |title=Appointments, etc. |work=The New York Times |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1853/07/23/75127644.pdf |access-date=1 September 2023}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MLIRAAAAYAAJ&q=bacon&pg=PA51 |title=Niles' National Register |year=1840 |editor-last=Hughes |editor-first=Jeremiah |volume=58 |location=Baltimore |pages=51 |language=en}}</ref> then a British crown colony, and remained on the post until November 1841.<ref>{{Cite book |last=US Department of State |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YVoFAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA7 |title=Official Register of the United States |publisher=J & GS Gideon, Printers |year=1843 |location=Washington, DC |pages=7 |language=en}}</ref>
In 1844, he was Deputy New York State Treasurer.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Secretary of State for New York |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ObUTAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA241 |title=Manual for the Use of the Legislature of the State of New York for the Year 1845 |publisher=C. Van Benthuysen and Co. |year=1845 |location=Albany, New York |pages=241 |language=en}}</ref>
In March 1846, he was again appointed U.S. Consul at Nassau, and remained in that post until 1850. In July 1853, he was re-appointed U.S. Consul at Nassau, and resigned the post in 1856.<ref name=":0" />
== Death == Bacon died on February 25, 1860, in Nassau, Bahamas, aged 71.
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