Tim M. Babcock

Tim Milford Babcock (born October 27, 1919) was the 16th Governor of the U.S. state of Montana. He served as Governor from 1962 to 1969.

Biography
Babcock was born in Littlefork, Minnesota. He graduated from Dawson County High School in 1939. He married Betty Lee on September 21, 1941, and they had two children. He served in the US Infantry in the European Theater during World War II.

Career
Babcock served three terms in the Montana Legislature prior to being elected lieutenant governor in 1960. He became governor in 1962 upon the death of Governor Donald Nutter. During his tenure, he proposed a three-percent sales tax to support the state government, and moderated the budget signed by Governor Nutter. From 1964 to 1965, he a member of the National Governors' Conference Executive Committee, and he chaired the Western Governors' Conference from 1966 to 1967. Babcock served until 1969, when he was succeeded by Forrest H. Anderson.

In 1964, Babcock endorsed Barry Goldwater of Arizona for the Republican presidential nomination. Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, however, was an easy winner that year of Montana's then four electoral votes.

Babcock was appointed by President Richard Nixon to the National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmosphere. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention eleven times and served on the National Republican Committee in 1997 and 2000.

In 1978, Babcock and his wife wrote a book: 'Challenges: Above & Beyond.'