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] 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.).