William W. Welch

William Wickham Welch ( born December 10, 1818 in Norfolk, Litchfield County, Connecticut, † July 30, 1892 ) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1857 he represented the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

After primary school, William Welch studied until 1839 at Yale College Medicine. After qualifying as a doctor he began in his native Norfolk to work in his new profession. At the same time he began a political career. Between 1848 and 1850 he was a delegate in the House of Representatives from Connecticut; 1851 to 1852 he was in the state Senate. Welch was a member of the short-lived American Party.

In the congressional elections of 1854 Welch was in the fourth electoral district of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he met on March 4, 1855 the successor to the Democrats Origen S. Seymour. Until March 3, 1857, he graduated only one term in Congress, which was determined by the events and discussions that preceded the Civil War.

After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Welch again worked as a doctor. In the years 1869 and 1881 he was elected again to the House of Representatives from Connecticut. He died on 30 July 1892 in his native Litchfield and was also buried there. His son William was an important medical and merits earned in the fight against the Spanish flu.