Babcock, Caroline L. (Caroline Lexow), 1882-

Caroline Lexow Babcock (b. Feb. 5, 1882, Nyack, NY–d. March 8, 1980, Nyack, NY). The daughter of legislator Clarence Lexow, she graduated Barnard College in 1904. She became executive secretary to Harriot Stanton Blatch at the Women's Political Union. Babcock also served as president of the College Equal Suffrage League of New York, executive secretary of the National College Equal Suffrage League, served on the executive committee and board of directors of the Birth Control Federation of America and a member of the Women's Peace Society. In 1921, she founded the Women's Peace Union and also chaired women's peace march in New York City. With Elinor Byrns, Babcock drafted a constitutional amendment calling for the power to declare or prepare for war to be removed from the powers of the U. S. Congress. She married Philip Westerly Babcock in 1915 and had three children.