Robert Bacon 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 adminis
Portrait by Harris & Ewing, c. 1905–1919
Bacon excelled as an undergraduate athlete at Harvard College.
From 1894 to 1903, Bacon was a trusted lieutenant of banking magnate J. P. Morgan.
In 1906, Bacon (seated right) negotiated the establishment of a provisional American government in Cuba with William Howard Taft (seated left).
Philander Chase Knox was an American lawyer, bank director, statesman and Republican Party politician. He represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1904 to 1909 and 1917 to 1921. He wa
Robert Bacon
…on January 27, thirty-eight days before the end of Roosevelt's term in office and the inauguration of William Howard Taft as president. Taft appointed Philander C. Knox to succeed him as secretary. Less than three weeks before Bacon's nomination, the United States had entered into treaties with Colombia and Panama to…
Knox's house in Brownsville
Philander Knox and his wife in 1911