Frank Welch (American politician)

He was born at Bunker Hill, Charlestown, Massachusetts on February 10, 1835 and moved to Boston in with his parents. He graduated from Boston High School and took up civil engineering. He moved to the Nebraska Territory in 1857 to Decatur, Nebraska serving as postmaster.

He served in the Nebraska Territorial council in 1864 and was presiding officer of the Territorial House of Representatives in 1865, also serving in the house in 1866. He was a register of the land office at West Point, Nebraska from 1871 to 1876. He was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fifth United States Congress serving from March 4, 1877 until his death in Neligh, Nebraska on September 4, 1878. He is interred in Forest Hills Cemetery, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts.

See also List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899)

References

External links at the Nebraska State Historical Society. Retrieved on 2009-10-27.

1835 births 1878 deaths People from Charlestown, Boston People from Decatur, Nebraska People from West Point, Nebraska Members of the Nebraska Territorial Legislature Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Nebraska 19th-century American politicians American postmasters