Frank Welch (American politician)

Frank Welch ( born February 10, 1835 in Charlestown, Massachusetts, † September 4, 1878 in Neligh, Nebraska ) was an American politician. Between 1877 and 1878 he represented the State of Nebraska in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frank Welch graduated from the Boston High School and trained as a civil engineer. In 1857 he moved to the Nebraska Territory, where he settled in Decatur in Burt County. There he was in the trade, but also as a post holder, works.

Welch joined the Republican Party. In 1864 he was a member of the Territorial Government and 1865-1866 he was a member of the Territorial House of Representatives, where he was its president in 1865. From 1871 to 1876 he was registrar at the Land Authority in West Point.

1876 ​​Frank Welch was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, where he Lorenzo Crounse replaced on March 4, 1877. His two-year term would actually run until March 3, 1879. But Welch already died on 4 September 1878. His seat then went to the made ​​necessary by-election to Thomas Jefferson majors.