Statewide County WI Archives Biographies.....BABCOCK, JOSEPH WEEKS
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Author: Halford Erickson

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. MEMBERS OF THE FIFTY-EIGHTH
CONGRESS. UNITED STATES. REPRESENTATIVES.


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

JOSEPH WEEKS BABCOCK (Rep.), of Necedah, was born in
Swanton, Vt, March 6, 1850; moved with his parents to Iowa
in 1855, where he resided until 1881, when he removed to
Necedah, Wis., where he has since resided and for many
years was engaged in the manufacture of lumber; was
elected to the Wisconsin assembly in 1888, and re-elected
in 1890; was elected chairman of the National Republican
Congressional Committee for the years of 1894, 1896, 1898,
1900, 1902, and 1904, and successfully conducted the
campaigns for those years; was elected to the fifty-third
congress in 1892, and re-elected to the fifty-fourth,
fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh, fifty-eighth and
fifty-ninth congresses; was appointed chairman of the
committee on the District of Columbia in the fifty-fourth,
fifty-fifth, fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth
congresses, and a member of the committee on Ways and
Means in the fifty-sixth, fifty-seventh and fifty-eighth
congresses.

Additional Comments:
Erickson, Halford.  The Blue Book of the State of
Wisconsin. Madison: Democrat Printing Co., State Printer,
1905.

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