Bryan County Biographies   BACON, Augustus Octavius(1839—1914) Senate Years of Service: 1895-1914 Party: Democrat   BACON, Augustus Octavius, (cousin of William S. Howard), a Senator from Georgia; born in Bryan County, Ga., October 20, 1839; attended the common schools in Liberty and Troup Counties; graduated from the literary department of the University of Georgia at Athens in 1859 and from its law department in 1860; admitted to the bar in 1860 and commenced practice in Atlanta, Ga.; entered the Confederate Army at the beginning of the Civil War and served during the campaigns of 1861 and 1862 as adjutant of the Ninth Georgia Regiment in the Army of Northern Virginia; subsequently commissioned captain in the Provisional Army of the Confederacy and assigned to general staff duty; at the close of the war resumed the practice of law in Macon, Ga.; member of the State house of representatives 1871-1886, serving as speaker pro tempore for two terms and as speaker eight years; president of the Democratic State convention in 1880; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1894; reelected in 1900, 1906 and again in 1913, and served from March 4, 1895, until his death; served as President pro tempore during the Sixty-second Congress; chairman, Committee on Engrossed Bills (Sixtieth and Sixty-first Congresses), Committee on Private Land Claims (Sixty-first and Sixty-second Congresses), Committee on Foreign Relations (Sixty-third Congress); died in Washington, D.C., February 14, 1914; funeral services were held in the Senate Chamber; interment in Rose Hill Cemetery, Macon, Ga. Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present, contributed by A. Newell. Bacon Augustus Octavius, United States senator, was born Oct. 20, 1839, in Bryan County, Ga. In 1868 he was elected presidential elector on the democratic ticket; in 1871 was elected to the Georgia House of Representatives, of which body he has served as a member for fourteen years; and during eight years was speaker. He was several times a candidate for the democratic nomination for governor of Georgia. In 1895-1907 he was United States senator; and is now serving a second term, ending in 1913. [Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar] Bryan, Jonothan, patriot, was born Sept. 12, 1708, in South Carolina. He removed to Georgia in 1752; and was active in the affairs of the colony. In 1754 he was made a member of the first royal council under Governor Reynolds; and was an associate judge of the first general court. He represented the district of Savannah in the provincial congress in 1775; and was a member of the council of safety. Although seventy-two years old, he entered the continental army and fought under Wayne. The county of Bryan, Ga., was named in his honor. He died March 12, 1788, in Georgia. [Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar] Barnett, William, congressman, was born in Virginia. In 1812-15 he was a representative from Georgia to the twelfth and thirteenth congresses; and was then appointed one of the commissioners to run the Creek boundary line. He died in Georgia. [Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar] Bartlett, Napier, soldier, journalist, author, was born in 1836 in Georgia. He waa the author of Clarimonde, a novelette; Stories of the Crescent City; and A Soldier's Story of the War. He died in 1877. [Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar] Beck, Marcus W., lawyer, jurist. He is an associate-justice of the state supreme court of Georgia. [Herringshaw’s National Library of American Biography: Contains Thirty-five Thousand Biographies of the Acknowledged Leaders of Life and Thought of the United States, by William Herringshaw, 1909 – Transcribed by Therman Kellar]   ©2007 Genealogy Trails