Alfred Babcock

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Alfred Babcock (April 15, 1805 - May 16, 1871) was a U.S. Representative from New York.

Born in Hamilton, New York, Babcock attended the local schools and Gaines (New York) Academy. He studied medicine. He moved to Gaines, New York, where he practiced his profession.

Babcock was elected a member of the board of trustees of the village of Gaines at its first election on May 28, 1839.

Babcock was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841-March 3, 1843). He resumed the practice of medicine in Gaines, New York. He moved to Illinois in 1850 and settled in Galesburg, Knox County, where he continued the practice of his profession until his death on May 16, 1871. He was interred in Hope Cemetery.

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• Alfred Babcock at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress