Richard J. Welch

Richard Joseph Welch ( born February 13, 1869 Monroe County, New York, † September 10, 1949 in Needles, California ) was an American politician. Between 1926 and 1949 he represented the state of California in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Even in his youth, Richard Welch in San Francisco. He attended the public schools of his old and new home. In California, he began his political career as a member of the Republican Party. Between 1901 and 1913 he sat in the Senate of California. In the years 1903-1907 he was the harbor master of San Francisco. In this time the severe earthquake that destroyed large parts of the city fell in 1906. Between 1916 and 1926 he served as a district administrator in San Francisco County.

After the death of Mr Lawrence J. Flaherty Welch was at the due election for the fifth seat from California as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on 31 August 1926. After twelve elections he could remain until his death on September 10, 1949 in Congress. Between 1929 and 1931 he was chairman of the Committee on Labor; January 3, 1949, he headed the Committee for management of state lands ( Committee on Public Lands ). During his time in Congress, the New Deal legislation of the Federal Government there were passed under President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933, where Welch's party faced a rather negative. Since 1941 the work of the Congress of the events of the Second World War and its aftermath was marked. In 1933, the 20th and the 21st Amendment to the Constitution was ratified.

Richard Welch was buried at Holy Cross Cemetery in San Francisco.