Augustus Octavius Bacon
Politician (1839-1914) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 74
Augustus Octavius Bacon was a Confederate soldier, segregationist, and U.S. politician.
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A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a U.S. senator from Georgia, becoming the first senator to be directly elected after the ratification of the Seventeenth Amendment, and rose to the position of president pro tempore of the United States Senate. Controversy arose during the American Civil Rights Movement over a provision in his will that created a racially segregated park in his hometown of Macon, which led to two U.S. Supreme Court decisions. He was a slave owner.
