Richard J. Welch

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Richard J. Welch, 1950

Richard Joseph Welch (born February 13, 1869 in 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 US House of Representatives .

Career

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

After the death of the MP Lawrence J. Flaherty , Welch was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the by-election due for the fifth seat of California , where he took up his new mandate on August 31, 1926. After twelve re-elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on September 10, 1949 . Between 1929 and 1931 he was chairman of the Committee on Labor ; since January 3, 1949, he headed the Committee on Public Lands . During his time in Congress, the New Deal laws of the federal government under President Franklin D. Roosevelt were passed there since 1933 , which Welch's party was rather hostile to. Since 1941, the work of the Congress was also shaped by the events of the Second World War and its consequences. In 1933 the 20th and 21st amendments were ratified.

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

Web links

  • Richard J. Welch in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)