Clinton Babbitt

Clinton Babbitt ( born November 16, 1831 in Westmoreland, Cheshire County, New Hampshire, † March 11, 1907 in Beloit, Wisconsin ) was an American politician. Between 1891 and 1893 he represented the state of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Clinton Babbitt attended the common schools and the Keene Academy. In 1853 he moved to Wisconsin, where he settled near Beloit in Rock County. There he was engaged in farming. At the same Babbitt began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. His first political office was that of a municipal council in his new hometown Beloit. In 1880 he ran unsuccessfully for the U.S. House of Representatives. Between 1886 and 1889 he was postmaster in Beloit and from 1885 to 1899, including during his time Congress, he was secretary of the Agricultural Society of Wisconsin.

In the congressional elections of 1890 Babbitt was the first electoral district of Wisconsin in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Lucien B. Caswell on March 4, 1891. Since he Republican Henry A. Cooper was defeated in the elections of 1892, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1893. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, Clinton Babbitt withdrew from public life in retirement, he spent in Beloit. There he died on 11 March 1907.

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