Gaspar Griswold Bacon, Sr. (March 7, 1886 – December 25, 1947) was on the board of Harvard University

Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...

, President of the Massachusetts Senate from 1929 to 1932 and Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts

Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts

The Lieutenant Governor of Massachusetts is the first in the line to discharge the powers and duties of the office of governor following the incapacitation of the Governor of Massachusetts...

 from 1933 to 1935.

Biography

He was born on March 7, 1886 to Robert Bacon

Robert Bacon

Robert Bacon was an American statesman and diplomat. He served as United States Secretary of State from January to March 1909.-Biography:...

 and had a brother, Robert L. Bacon

Robert L. Bacon

Robert Low Bacon was a banker, Lieutenant Colonel, and congressman from New York.-Biography:Born in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts, the son of Martha Waldron Cowdin and future Secretary of State Robert Bacon, he received a common school education as a child...

. His son was the actor Gaspar G. Bacon, Jr. better known as David Bacon. He died on Christmas

Christmas

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, December 25, 1947.