Winthrop Welles Ketcham
Winthrop Welles Ketcham ( born June 29, 1820 Wilkes -Barre, Pennsylvania, † December 6, 1879 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania) was an American lawyer and politician. In 1875 and 1876 he represented the State of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives; then he became a federal judge.
Career
Winthrop Ketcham received a classical education and was then tätog as a teacher in Kingston and Philadelphia. After studying law and his 1850 was admitted as a lawyer, he began to work in this profession. In the years 1855-1857 he practiced in Luzerne County, the Office of the Prothonotary. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career. In 1858 he became a deputy in the House of Representatives from Pennsylvania; 1859-1861 he was a member of the State Senate. 1860 and 1864 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in part, on each of which Abraham Lincoln was nominated as a presidential candidate. In 1864, Ketcham ran unsuccessfully for Congress yet. From 1864 to 1866 he worked for the Federal Court for claims to the federal government (United States Court of Claims ).
In the congressional elections of 1874 Ketcham was in the twelfth electoral district of Pennsylvania in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Lazarus Denison Shoemaker on March 4, 1875. This mandate he was able to exercise until his resignation on 19 July 1876. This was due to his appointment as a judge at the Federal District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania. This office he held until his death on December 6, 1879 in Pittsburgh.