Born in Wichita, Kansas, Battin moved with his parents to Montana in November 1929.

Battin was elected as a Republican to the Eighty-seventh and to the three succeeding Congresses, and served from January 3, 1961, until his resignation February 27, 1969, to become United States District Judge.

[citation needed] Battin's son, Jim, was elected to the California State Assembly in 1994.

[citation needed] One of the cases that Battin handled was the conviction of four counts of extortion of the Louisiana Teamsters Union business agent Edward Grady Partin, the one who supplied the immunized testimony that sent Jimmy Hoffa to prison.

[2] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress