Bacon was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-ninth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Lewis Beach as Representative of the fifteenth district of New York. He was reelected to the Fiftieth Congress and served from December 6, 1886, until March 3, 1889.
Bacon was elected as a Democrat to fill a vacant seat in the Forty-ninth Congress after Lewis Beach's passing in New York's fifteenth district. He successfully ran for re-election in the Fiftieth Congress and served from December 6, 1886, until March 3, 1889.