Joseph W. Babcock

Joseph W. Babcock

Joseph Weeks Babcock (born March 6, 1850 in Swanton , Franklin County , Vermont , †  April 27, 1909 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1893 and 1907 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Joseph Babcock was a grandson of Joseph Weeks (1773-1845), who had represented the state of New Hampshire in the US House of Representatives between 1835 and 1839 . In 1855 he and his parents moved to Linn County , Iowa , where the family settled near Mount Vernon . There he attended public schools. In 1872, Babcock moved to Necedah , Wisconsin, where he worked in the lumber business. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Republican Party .

Between 1889 and 1893 Babcock was a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly . In the congressional elections of 1892 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the third constituency of Wisconsin, where he succeeded Democrat Allen R. Bushnell on March 4, 1893 . After six re-elections, he was able to complete seven legislative terms in Congress by March 3, 1907 . During this time the Spanish-American War fell . From 1895 to 1907, Babcock was chairman of the District of Columbia Administration Committee. In 1904 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Chicago , where US President Theodore Roosevelt was nominated for another term. In 1894 and 1902 he was also chairman of the National Republican Congressional Committee .

In 1906, Babcock declined to run for the US House of Representatives again. After the end of his last legislative term, he withdrew into retirement, which he spent in the federal capital Washington. He died there on April 27, 1909.

Web links

• Joseph W. Babcock in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Joseph W. Babcock in the database of Find a Grave (English)