Benjamin Welch junior

Benjamin Welch junior (* around 1818, † April 14, 1863 in Clifton Springs , New York ) was an American newspaper publisher and politician . He was New York Treasurer of State from 1852 to 1853 .

Career

Nothing is known about Benjamin Welch junior's youth. He studied law with Richter Mann in Utica, New York. He then first published the Utica Democrat and then the Buffalo Republican in Buffalo, New York. At that time he was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1849 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of Treasurer of State of New York. He suffered a defeat to Whig / Anti-Rent War candidate Alvah Hunt . In 1851 he ran again for the office of Treasurer of State of New York. The Whig James M. Cookwon the election by 228 votes. Cook received 200,693 votes and Welch received 200,465. As a result, Welch successfully challenged Cook's election on the following basis: the ballots for B. Welch, Benjamin Welch (excluding Jr. ), and Benjamin C. Welch, Jr. (with the mistaken middle initial) were all cast for him, but not counted in his favor. On November 20, 1852 he took up the post of Treasurer of State of New York. In 1855 he joined the American Party and later the Republican Party . The Governor Edwin D. Morgan appointed him in 1859 to the Commissary-General of the Militia of New York. During the Civil War he joined General John Pope's staff in 1862 , but soon became seriously ill and died of the effects of the disease a year later.

literature

• Official State Canvass , The New York Times, January 1, 1852
• The New York civil list , Weed, Parsons and Company, 1858, p. 36
• Latest Intelligence , The New York Times, May 10, 1855
• Affairs at Albany , The New York Times, January 13, 1859
• Barbour, Oliver Lorenzo: Reports of Cases in Law and Equity in the Supreme Court of the State of New York , Volume 14, Gould, Banks & Gould, 1853, p. 259
• Tenney, William Jewett: The Military and Naval History of the Rebellion in the United States. With Biographical Sketches of Deceased Officers , D. Appleton, 1865, p. 749

Web links

• Benjamin Welch junior on The Political Graveyard website