Phil J. Welch

Philip James " Phil" Welch ( born April 4, 1895 in Saint Joseph, Missouri, † April 26, 1963 ) was an American politician. Between 1949 and 1953 he represented the State of Missouri in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Phil Welch attended the common schools and then worked 1916-1931 in the furniture industry. At the same time he began a political career as a member of the Democratic Party. From 1932 to 1936 he served as treasurer in Saint Joseph; 1936-1946 he was mayor of that city. In 1940, Welch was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, was nominated to the incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt for the third time as a presidential candidate. In the years 1946 and 1947 he served as an Assistant Director Board Member of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in Kansas City.

In the congressional elections of 1948, Welch was the third electoral district of Missouri in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican William Clay Cole on January 3, 1949. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1953 two legislative sessions. These were shaped by the events of the Cold War. In 1952, Welch gave up another Congress candidate. Instead, he sought unsuccessfully to his party's nomination for the gubernatorial election in Missouri. In the following years he worked in various fields for the state government of Missouri. Phil Welch died on 26 April 1963 in a hospital in Saint Joseph.