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Robert Bacon

1860 - 1919

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Robert Bacon (July 5, 1860 – May 29, 1919) was an American athlete, banker, businessman, statesman, diplomat and Republican Party politician who served as the 39th United States Secretary of State in the Theodore Roosevelt administration from January to March 1909. He also served as Assistant Secretary of State from 1905 to 1909 and Ambassador to France from 1909 to 1912. Bacon was a native of Boston, Massachusetts and attended Harvard College. While a student at Harvard, he starred in athletics, captaining the football team, rowing crew, and winning events in boxing and track. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Bacon is the 15,552nd most popular politician (down from 14,412th in 2019), the 8,410th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,729th in 2019) and the 639th most popular American Politician.

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Robert Bacon ranks 15,552 out of 19,576Before him are Agnimitra, Günther Oettinger, Aileen Baviera, Antonio Mateu Lahoz, Jorge Quiroga, and Neven Mimica. After him are Laura Codruța Kövesi, Muhammad Zafarullah Khan, Thomas Townshend, 1st Viscount Sydney, Henry Dearborn, Rainer Brüderle, and Gheorghe Mironescu.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1860, Robert Bacon ranks 127Before him are Roger de Barbarin, Carlos José Solórzano, Alicia Boole Stott, John Antoine Nau, Ferdinand Boberg, and Ekaterina Karavelova. After him are Ali Rıza Pasha, Antônio Parreiras, Grigory Grum-Grshimailo, Otto Liebe, Gabriele Possanner, and Emily Hobhouse. Among people deceased in 1919, Robert Bacon ranks 140Before him are Spyridon Lambros, Saovabha Phongsri, Camille Erlanger, Manuel Franco, Henning von Holtzendorff, and Kenyon Cox. After him are Mikhail Suslin, Joseph Rosemeyer, Valerian Albanov, Sven Forssman, Henry Clay Frick, and William Michael Rossetti.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Bacon ranks 8,412 out of 20,380Before him are Edward Moore (1897), Jonathan Pollard (1954), Curly Howard (1903), Charles Kieffer (1910), William D. Coolidge (1873), and Marc Aaronson (1950). After him are Paddy Chayefsky (1923), Noah Wyle (1971), John Casper (1943), K. Eric Drexler (1955), Herschell Gordon Lewis (1926), and Alan Ball (1957).

Among POLITICIANS In United States

Among politicians born in United States, Robert Bacon ranks 639Before him are John Langdon (1741), Lloyd Bentsen (1921), James Brady (1940), John P. Kennedy (1795), Whitney Smith (1940), and Hamilton Fish (1808). After him are Henry Dearborn (1751), Margaret Woodrow Wilson (1886), George Pataki (1945), William L. Marcy (1786), Andrew Cuomo (1957), and John Morton (1725).