Leverett Wright Babcock | |
Order: | 26th |
Office: | Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives |
Term Start: | 1903 |
Term End: | 1905 |
Office2: | Minnesota State Representative |
Term Start2: | 1899 |
Term End2: | 1905 |
Predecessor: | Michael J. Dowling |
Successor: | Frank Clague |
Birth Date: | 1840 |
Birth Place: | New York |
Death Date: | 1906 |
Alma Mater: | University of Vermont |
Party: | Republican |
Residence: | Wadena, Minnesota |
Profession: | Physician |
Leverett Wright Babcock (1840–1906) was a Minnesota Republican politician and a Speaker of the Minnesota House of Representatives. Babcock, a physician, came to Minnesota in 1879. He served as village council president for Wadena, Minnesota for seven years, and was elected to the Minnesota House of Representatives in 1898. He served three terms, his last as speaker. Babcock died in 1906.[1]