Biographical Sketches:  Joseph Weeks Babcock


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The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin Compiled and Published under
the direction of Wm. H. Froehlich, Secretary of State 1901.

page 722.

REPRESENTATIVES.  THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT.

Adams, Crawford, Grant, Iowa, Juneau, Richland, Sauk and Vernon
counties. Population in 1900 - 189,891.

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, settling in
Necedah, where he has since resided, being engaged in the manufacture
of lumber until 1898, when the timber became exhausted; was elected to
Wisconsin assembly in 1888 and re-elected in 1890; was elected to
Congress in 1892, 1894, 1896, 1898, and 1900; was selected by Congress
for Chairman of National Republican Congressional committee in 1894,
and conducted that campaign as well as the campaigns of 1896, 1898 and
1900; was chairman of the Committee on the District of Columbia in
Fifty-fourth, Fifty-fifth and Fifty-sixth congresses, and appointed a
Member of Ways and Means committee In Fifty-sixth Congress. In the
election of Nov. 9, 1900, Mr. Babcock received 26,593 votes against
14,017 votes cast for Edward L. Luckow (Dem.). Mr. Babcock's plurality
12,525.