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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—WisconsinBABCOCK, Joseph Weeks
(1850—1909)
BABCOCK, Joseph Weeks, (grandson of Joseph Weeks), a Representative from Wisconsin; born in Swanton, Franklin County, Vt., March 6, 1850; moved to Linn County, Iowa, with his parents, who settled near Mount Vernon in 1855; attended the common schools of Mount Vernon and Cedar Falls; moved to Necedah, Juneau County, Wis., in 1872 and engaged in the lumber business; member of the Wisconsin State assembly 1889-1893; chairman of the Republican National Congressional Committee in 1894 and 1902; delegate at large to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1904; elected as a Republican to the Fifty-third and to the six succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1893-March 3, 1907); chairman, Committee on District of Columbia (Fifty-fourth through Fifty-ninth Congresses); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1906; retired and resided in Washington, D.C., until his death there on April 27, 1909; remains were cremated and the ashes deposited in the monument on the family plot in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Babcock, Joseph Weeks. Tariff, money and the history of financial legislation in the United States
. [N.p., 1897].
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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