Peter C. Bacon

Peter Child Bacon


3rd Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts
In office April 1, 1849 – April 7, 1851
Preceded by	Henry Chapin
Succeeded by	John S.C. Knowlton
Majority	668

Personal details
Political party	Free Soil
Alma mater	Brown University; class of 1827
Profession	Attorney

Peter Child Bacon (November 11, 1804 – February 7, 1886) was an attorney who served as the third Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts, USA.

Bacon graduated from Brown University in 1827. Bacon studied law at the New Haven Law School, and with the law firm of Davis & Allen of Worcester.

In 1839, Bacon was admitted the bar at Worcester, County. He practiced law for two years in Dudley, Massachusetts and twelve years in Oxford, Massachusetts after which he moved to Worcester.

He was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society in 1860.