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John Kenly Bacon (Wolf’s Head 1896)

Diplomat. FSO. Businessman. Yale University. Wolf’s Head. Beta Theta Pi.

Married Mary Ellen Mellon Monroney. Died 3 May 1994, Age 88. Mary was a confidante of Bess Truman and Lady Bird Johnson. She also was a friend of Barbara Bush (Married to future President George H. W. Bush S&B1948) and B.A. Bentsen, wife of former senator and current Treasury Secretary Lloyd Bentsen. The service will include a homily by former Oklahoma Governor and current U.S. Senator David L. Boren(S&B1963)[3]. Father was Thomas Peabody Mellon.

Consul, Quebec, 1945, retired, 1948, director, Yale Club of New York, member, Metropolitan Club, Washington.[1]

WW2 - 1944 - Executive Assistant, Office of Press Relations, State Department to Secretary Cordell Hull and Edward Stettinius Jr. (Seven Society) by President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Freemason) and Harry S. Truman (Freemason)[1]

WW2 - 1942 - Acting Chief, Division of River Plate affairs.[1] (President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Freemason))

WW2 - 1942 - Assistant Chief, Division of American Republics.[1]

WW2 - 1939 to 1941 - Second Secretary, Port-au-Prince, Haiti.[1] (President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Freemason))

1938 to 1939 - Third Secretary of Legation, Caracas, Venezuela.[1] (President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Freemason))

1936 to 1938 - Consul, Stockholm, Sweden.[1] (President Franklin D. Roosevelt (Freemason))

1932 to 1935 - Vice-consul, St. John, N. B., 1931, Lima, Peru.[1] (President Herbert Hoover(Bohemian)

1930 - Entered government service, Vice-Consul of Career and Secretary in the Diplomatic Service.[1](President Herbert Hoover(Bohemian)

1926 to 1930 - Treasurer, Architects’ Exhibit Corp., Boston.[1]

1928 - Started advertising business, Boston.[1]

1925 to 1928 - Associated with Winslow & Co., Boston[1]

1896 - Graduated Yale, Wolf’s Head.

Died 13 Jun 1952, from Not Known. Age 48.