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Robert Bacon

Robert Bacon

Interment LocationVisited 
Brookline, MAApril 23, 2021 

Photographed April 23, 2021.
Photographed April 23, 2021.
Photographed April 23, 2021.

Fast Facts

Born: July 5, 1860 in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts

Spouse: Martha Waldron Cowdin Bacon (m. 1883-1919)

Military Rank: Lieutenant Colonel — U.S. Army

Political Affiliation: Republican Party

Served in Cabinet of: Theodore Roosevelt

Cabinet Position: Secretary of State (1909)

Died: May 29, 1919 in Manhattan, New York, New York

Cause of Death: Blood Poisoning

Age: 58

Interment: Walnut Hills Cemetery, Brookline, Massachusetts

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