The New York herald., 1922-05-26
Former Will Be Nominated to
Succeed Hicks as Repre-
sentative in Congress.
LATTER FOR REELECTION
Inspired by Fathers, Partners
in Morgan Firm, to Seek
Public Careers.

The Republican ticket this fall will
bear the names of two young men who
have entered energetically upon a pol
itical career, partly to satisfy their
own natural ambition and partly to
realize the ambition their fathers had
for them.
Frederick Trubee Dawson. son OF
the late Henry p. Dawson, will be re-
nominated for the Assembly. Robert
Low Bacon, son of the late Robert
Bacon, will be nominated to succeed
Frederick c. Hicks. Representative In
Congress from the First district, Mas
sau and Suffolk counties and part
of Queens.
sPolitical leaders. Samuel S. Koenic
among them. say that young Dawson
certainly will receive the opportunity %.
extending the legislative work wh,ch
showed excellent results In his irs,
| term, just finishing. They assume that
young Bacon will have no importan
opposition for the Congress seat whicl
Mr.. Hicks OF Port Washington is {.
vacate, II Is said, TO accept a diplo
matte post In n South American re-
public.
The First Congress district has game
Tame as nursery for young statesm ~
springfng from noted families. 1t wa,
from the First, and Oyster Bay. oi
course. that the late Theodore Roosevelt,
literally leaped tc fame beginning win
the New York Assembly. More Sc
Gently Lieut.-Col. Theodore Roosevelt,
began his own political career with scr
vice In the State Assembly. from which
he went to the Office OF Assistant Se-
| retary OF the Navy Theodore Doug.
las Robinson also is In this group. an
now come young Dawson and yorrc
Bacon.
Moreover. the fathers of the candidates
were associates In the banking nrm 4
}. +. Morgan Co. for years, and werr
not only close friends. but were in.
spired to high ideals OF public service
Both Henry =. Dawson and Rober.
Bacon impressed on their sons tha,
money wos not everything, and tha. .,
was the duty of young men with larae
opportunities TO devote as much az
themselves as possible to public service
Young Dawson renounced chance II
enter the Morgan firm and decided "a
carry on" In public affairs Under his
fathers will he Is to have $4,000. 900. O.,
he is not dependent for his income or
any official salary. His war record as
driver OF an American ambulance ir
France and as a Flight Lieutenant of the
United States Reserve Flying Corps In
whose training he was terribly injured
In July, 1917, have helped him politi-
cally.
+. Trubee Dawson Is cheered on en-
Enthusiastically by his young wife. who
was Miss Dorothy Pea body. daughter
OF the Rev. Endicott Peabody ID d..
headmaster at Groton School Mr.. Da.
vison Is Yale man.
As for Robert Low Bacon, rrea,
many persons may be surprised to hear
the news that was divulged yesterday.
that he is TO succeed Representative
Hicks. Since Mr. Bacons gradua ton
from Harvard In 1907 he has taken q
Keen interest in politics He has made
himself thoroughly well known In Mas
sau and Suffolk counties, carefully paw
ing the way for the candidacy he has
had In mind for several years. He mas
made many political addresses, attended
the fairs and generally kept himself In
the eye of the voters.
Mr.. Bacon is 81 and in 1918 married
Miss Virginia Murray. daughter Of Mr..
and Mrs. Henry Alexander Murray. He
goes into politics with some assistance
lent by the prestige of his fathers dis
tlnguished career as Ambassador to
France