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Joseph W. Babcock
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Wisconsin's 3rd district
In office
March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1907
Preceded byAllen R. Bushnell
Succeeded byJames William Murphy
Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
In office
1888–1892
Personal details
BornMarch 6, 1850
Swanton, Vermont
DiedApril 27, 1909(1909-04-27) (aged 59)
Washington, D.C.
Political partyRepublican

Joseph Weeks Babcock (March 6, 1850 – April 27, 1909) was a seven-term Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin.

Born in Swanton, Vermont. Babcock was the grandson of Joseph Weeks, a Congressman from Vermont. He grew up in Butler County, Iowa, where he started his lumber career working at his father's lumberyard. In 1881 he moved to Necedah, Wisconsin, where he amassed a fortune during his 17 years as manager and secretary of the Necedah Lumber Company, and served in the Wisconsin State Assembly from 1888–1892.

Mary Finch

He married Mary Finch, a native of Clinton, Iowa, and the daughter of C. C. Finch. They resided for many years in Necedah, Wisconsin, where Babcock was in the lumber business. They had a son, Charles, and a daughter, Amelia. The Babcocks owned a residence on Capitol Hill facing the capitol grounds.[1]

In 1892, Babcock was elected to the 53rd United States Congress from Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district and was reelected to the six subsequent congresses as well serving from March 4, 1893 till March 3, 1907. In 1893, he helped organize the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee; he was credited with helping achieve Republican successes in the 1894 House elections, and was chairman of the committee for the next ten years. He was a candidate for Speaker of the House in 1902, but lost to Joseph Cannon. He was defeated for reelection in 1906 by Democrat James William Murphy.

He continued to live in Washington, D.C., where in 1909 he died at the age of 59 after suffering for several weeks from liver and kidney problems.

Sources

  1. ^ Hinman, Ida (1895). The Washington Sketch Book, Supplement. Washington, D.C.: Hartman & Cadick. p. 17.
U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Wisconsin's 3rd congressional district
March 4, 1893 – March 3, 1907 		Succeeded by
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