George Austin Welsh
George Austin Welsh ( * August 9, 1878 in Bay View, Cecil County, Maryland, † October 22, 1970 in Media, Pennsylvania) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1923 and 1932 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives; then he became a federal judge.
Career
George Welsh attended the public schools in the Greater Philadelphia and studied at the Temple University after that. Between 1895 and 1901 he was a stenographer and press spokesman ( reporter ) of the state Legislature. After a subsequent law degree from Temple University and his 1905 was admitted as a lawyer, he started working in Philadelphia in this profession. In the years 1905 and 1906 he was secretary of the mayor of Philadelphia. From 1906 to 1907 he was one of the legal representatives of this city. Thereafter, he served from 1907 to 1922 as Deputy District Attorney in Philadelphia County. In 1917, he interrupted this activity in order to participate in Fort Niagara at a training officer in the U.S. Army. Background was the American entry into the First World War. George Welsh was 1914-1938 Secretary of Temple University; after which he served as its Vice President. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. From 1914 to 1932 he was the district chairman. He also sat from 1921 to 1932 in the Education Committee of Philadelphia County.
In the congressional elections of 1922, Welsh was in the sixth constituency of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of George P. Darrow on March 4, 1923. After four elections he could remain until his on May 31, 1932 officially made resignation in Congress. From 1925 to 1927 he was chairman of the Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions.
Welshs resignation was after his appointment as a judge at the Federal District Court for the Eastern part of the state Pennsylvania. This office he held until 1957. After that he went into retirement; but he was still working as a Senior Judge. So that he could stand in a substitute, if needed as a temporary judge. George Welsh died on 22 October 1970 at the age of 92 years in Media, where he had spent his last years.