Martin Welker

Judge Martin Welker

Personal

Birthday:

4/25/1819

Birthplace:

Knox County, OH

Date of Death:

3/15/1902

Place of Death:

Wooster, OH

Race or Ethnicity:

White

Gender:

Male

Prior Employment:

Private practice, Millersburg, Ohio, 1840-1846, 1851-1852
Clerk, Holmes County [Ohio] Court of Common Pleas, 1846-1851
Judge, Ohio Court of Common Pleas, Sixth Judicial District, 1852-1857
Private practice, Wooster, Ohio, 1857
Lieutenant governor, Ohio, 1857-1858
U.S. Army colonel, 1861-1865
U.S. representative from Ohio, 1865-1871
Professor, Wooster College, 1873-1890

Education

Name of School:

Read law

Degree Year:

1840

Judicial Career

Court Name:

U. S. District Court, Northern District of Ohio

Court Name:

Ohio Northern District Court

President Nominating:

Ulysses Grant

Party Affiliation of President:

Republican

Commission Date:

12/08/1873

Termination Date:

06/01/1889

Termination Reason:

Retirement