Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....Babcock, Joseph Weeks  
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Source: Compiled and Published under under the direction of Henry Casson
Author: The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin, 1897

THIRD DISTRICT.

Grant, Iowa, Crawford, Richland, Sauk, Vernon, Juneau and Adams counties. 
Population in 1895—184,881.

JOSEPH WEEKS BABCOCK, of Necedah, was born in Swanton, Vt., March
6, 1850; removed with his parents to Iowa in 1855; was educated at Mount Vernon 
and Cedar Falls; removed from Iowa in 1881, and settled at Necedah, where he 
has since resided, being engaged in the manufacture of lumber; was elected to 
the Wisconsin Assembly in 1888, and served as chairman of the Committee on 
Incorporations, and was re-elected in 1890; was elected chairman of the 
National Republican Congressional Committee in 1894, and re-elected in 1896; 
was elected to the Fifty-third and Fifty-fourth Congresses, and re-elected to 
the Fifty-fifth Congress as a republican, receiving 26,691 votes, against 
15,168 votes for A. J. Davis, fusion democrat.

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Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Henry Casson, Secretary of State 1897.

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