Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....BABCOCK, JOSEPH WEEKS 
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Author: Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson, Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903.

REPRESENTATIVES.

THIRD CONGRESSIONAL DISTRICT. Crawford, Grant, Iowa,
Juneau, Richland, Sauk and Vernon Counties. Population
in 1900— 180,750.

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 1900; was
elected to congress in 1892, 1894, 1896, 1898, 1900,
and again in 1902, receiving 19,405 votes against 11,155 for
Jackson Silbaugh (Dem.) and 1,356 for Edward Owens (Pro.) ;
was elected chairman of national republican congressional
committee in 1894, and conducted that campaign, as well as
the campaigns of 1896, 1898, 1900 and 1902; was appointed
chairman of the committee on the District of Columbia in
fifty-fourth fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, and fifty-seventh
congresses, and appointed a member of the ways and means
committee in fifty-sixth and fifty-seventh congresses.

Additional Comments:
The Blue Book of the State of Wisconsin. Compiled and
Published Under the Direction of Halford Erickson,
Commissioner of Labor and Industrial Statistics, 1903. 1069
- 1117.

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