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Babcock, Joseph Weeks

manufacturer, congressman, was born March 6, 1850, in Swanton, Vt. He removed with his parents to Iowa in 1855; attended school at Mount Vernon and Cedar Falls; removed from Iowa in 1881 and settled in Necedah, where he has since resided, being engaged in the manufacture of lumber. He was elected to the Wisconsin assembly in 1888 and re-elected in 1890; was elected chairman of the national republican congressional committee in 1894 and re-elected in 1896. He was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses and re-elected to the fifty-fifth congress as a republican.