Francis Babbitt

Francis Sanford Babbitt
14th Mayor of Taunton, Massachusetts
In office 1891[1] – 1893[1]
Preceded by	Arthur Alger
Succeeded by	Willis Hodgman
Majority	193 (1890)[2]
Chief of Police of Taunton, Massachusetts[3]
In office 1897[3] – 1900
Member of the Taunton, Massachusetts Board of Aldermen[3]
In office 1887[3] – 1887[3]
Chairman of the Bristol County, Massachusetts County Commission[1]
In office 1888[1] – 1893[1][3]
Member of the Bristol County, Massachusetts County Commission[3]
In office 1887[1][3] – 1893[3]
Member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives[3]
In office 1882[3] – 1883[3]
Personal details
Born	December 22, 1843[3][4] Taunton, Massachusetts[4]
Died	August 22, 1917[4] Taunton, Massachusetts[4]
Spouse(s)	Abbie L. Hitch[3]
Children	A. Louise Babbitt[3]
Military service
Allegiance	United States of America Union
Service/branch	Union Army
Years of service	1862[1] August 1862[1]-June 28, 1865[1]
Unit	Company F, 4th Regiment; Massachusetts Volunteer Militia Company F, 39th Regiment; Massachusetts Volunteer Militia
Commands	United States Signal Corps[1]
Battles/wars	American Civil War

Francis Sanford Babbitt (December 22, 1843 – August 22, 1917) was a Massachusetts politician who served as the fourteenth Mayor of Taunton, Massachusetts.

Babbitt was born in Taunton, Massachusetts to George H. and Seraphene S. Babbitt on December 22, 1843.^[3]

Mayor of Taunton

Babbitt ran for the Mayor of Taunton in 1890. On December 2, 1890, he was elected Mayor as the candidate of the Beau. and Citizen party by a plurality of 193 over Brown, (Ind.).^[2]

Notes

1. Toomey, Daniel P. (1892), Massachusetts of Today: A Memorial of the State, Historical and Biographical, Boston, MA: Columbia Publishing Company, p. 477.
2. New York Times (December 3, 1890), Article 10 -- No Title, New York, New York: New York Times
3. Borden, Alanson (1899), Our County and its People: A Descriptive and Biographical Record of Bristol County, Massachusetts, Part 2, New Bedford, Massachusetts: The Boston History Company, p. 10
4. Collections of the Old Colony Historical Society, No. 8 (1921), REPORT OF THE HISTORIOGRAPHER NECROLOGY, 1905-1921, Taunton, Massachusetts: Old Colony Historical Society, p. 157.

References

• Toomey, Daniel P.: Massachusetts of Today: A Memorial of the State, Historical and Biographical, Boston, MA: Columbia Publishing Company, p. 477, (1892).