Roger Stuart Bacon
{{Short description|Canadian politician (1926–2021)}}
{{Use Canadian English|date=January 2023}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| image = Roger Stuart Bacon portrait 1973.jpg
| caption = Bacon, {{circa|1973}}
| honorific-prefix = The Honourable
| honorific-suffix = ECNS
| name = Roger Stuart Bacon
| office= 21st Premier of Nova Scotia
| term_start = September 12, 1990
| term_end = February 26, 1991
| monarch = Elizabeth II
| lieutenant_governor = Lloyd Crouse
| predecessor = John Buchanan
| successor = Donald W. Cameron
| office2 = MLA for Cumberland East
| term_start2 = October 13, 1970
| term_end2 = May 25, 1993
| predecessor2 = James A. Langille
| successor2 = riding dissolved
| birth_date = {{birth date|1926|6|29}}
| birth_place = Upper Nappan, Nova Scotia, Canada
| death_date = {{death date and age|2021|10|4|1926|6|29}}
| death_place = Amherst, Nova Scotia, Canada
| party = Progressive Conservative
| spouse = Clara Hawthorne (d. 2013)
}}
Roger Stuart Bacon (June 29, 1926 – October 4, 2021) was a Canadian politician who served as the 21st premier of Nova Scotia from 1990 to 1991.
Political career
He was first elected to the Nova Scotia House of Assembly in 1970 as a Progressive Conservative. When his party won the 1978 election, Bacon was Minister of Tourism before becoming Minister of Agriculture in the cabinet of Premier John Buchanan from 1979 to 1988.{{cite news |title=Roger Stuart Bacon |url=http://www.pressreader.com/canada/truro-daily-news/20170310/281578060462792 |accessdate=August 30, 2018 |work=Truro Daily News |via=PressReader |date=March 17, 2017}}
Bacon then became Deputy Premier and Minister of Housing until 1990, when he succeeded Buchanan (who had been appointed to the Canadian Senate) to become interim leader of the party and premier of the province for six months until the party chose Donald W. Cameron as its new leader. He did not run for re-election in 1993.
Personal life
Born in Upper Nappan, Nova Scotia in June 1926, Bacon was a dairy farmer and pioneer of the blueberry industry. Bacon died on October 4, 2021, at the age of 95.[https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/former-nova-scotia-premier-roger-bacon-remembered-as-agricultural-pioneer-1.5611680 Former Nova Scotia premier Roger Bacon remembered as agricultural pioneer]
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Category:Canadian people of British descent
Category:Members of the United Church of Canada
Category:Nova Scotia political party leaders
Category:People from Cumberland County, Nova Scotia
Category:Premiers of Nova Scotia
Category:Progressive Conservative Association of Nova Scotia MLAs
Category:20th-century members of the Nova Scotia House of Assembly