Reverend Leonard Bacon (1802–81) was an American Congregational clergyman and a consequential authority in the contemporary temperance and anti-slavery movements. He was the brother of American writer and Shakespeare scholar Delia Salter Bacon.
Born in Detroit, Bacon graduated from Yale College in 1820 and the Andover Theological Seminary in 1823. He was the pastor (1825–81) of the First Church (Congregational) in New Haven, Connecticut, occupying a leading pulpit in New England. He was an editor of the Christian Spectator-New Haven (1826–38) and founded the New Englander (1843; later, the Yale Review.)
Bacon was also a professor of church history and polity at Yale (1866–71) and wrote an account of Congregationalism in America. He was an early leader in the anti-slavery movement and was founder-editor (1848) of the free-soil paper, The Independent. His congregation published Leonard Bacon, Pastor of the First Church in New Haven (1882.)
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Thou shalt not get found out is not one of God’s commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.
—Leonard Bacon
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