{{short description|American judge (1878–1970)}} {{Infobox officeholder | honorific_prefix = | name = George Austin Welsh | honorific_suffix = | image = George Austin Welsh, Federal Judge.jpg | alt = | caption = | office = Senior Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | term_start = August 29, 1957 | term_end = October 22, 1970 | office1 = Judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania | term_start1 = May 20, 1932 | term_end1 = August 29, 1957 | nominator1 = | appointer1 = Herbert Hoover | predecessor1 = Joseph Whitaker Thompson | successor1 = Thomas C. Egan | state2 = Pennsylvania | district2 = {{ushr|PA|6|6th}} | term_start2 = March 4, 1923 | term_end2 = May 31, 1932 | predecessor2 = George P. Darrow | successor2 = Robert Lee Davis | pronunciation = | birth_name = George Austin Welsh | birth_date = {{Birth date|1878|08|09}} | birth_place = Bay View, Maryland, US | death_date = {{Death date and age|1970|10|22|1878|08|09}} | death_place = Media, Pennsylvania, US | death_cause = | resting_place = West Laurel Hill Cemetery<br>Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania | resting_place_coordinates = | citizenship = | party = Republican | other_party = | height = | spouse = | partner = | relations = | children = | parents = | mother = | father = | relatives = | education = Temple University Beasley School of Law (LL.B.) | alma_mater = | occupation = | profession = | known_for = | salary = | net_worth = | cabinet = | committees = | portfolio = | awards = | signature = | signature_alt = | website = <!--Embedded templates / Footnotes--> | footnotes = }}
'''George Austin Welsh''' (August 9, 1878 – October 22, 1970) was a United States representative from Pennsylvania and a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.
==Education and career==
Born on August 9, 1878, in Bay View, Maryland, Welsh attended the country schools and the public schools of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.<ref name="congressdirectory"/> He took business and academic courses from Temple University and engaged as a legislative stenographer and reporter from 1895 to 1901.<ref name="congressdirectory"/> He received a Bachelor of Laws in 1905 from Philadelphia Law School of Temple College (now Temple University Beasley School of Law) and was admitted to the bar the same year.<ref name="auto">{{FJC Bio|2546|nid=1389591|name=George Austin Welsh<!--(1878–1970)-->}}</ref> He entered private practice in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania from 1905 to 1923.<ref name="auto"/> He was Secretary to Mayor John Weaver of Philadelphia from 1905 to 1906.<ref>{{cite web|title=Judge George Austin Welsh - Open Jurist|url=http://openjurist.org/judge/george-austin-welsh|access-date=June 5, 2016}}</ref> He was an assistant city solicitor for Philadelphia from 1906 to 1907.<ref name="auto"/> He was an assistant district attorney in Philadelphia from 1907 to 1922.<ref name="auto"/> He was Secretary of Temple University from 1914 to 1938, and began serving as its first Vice President in 1938.<ref name="congressdirectory"/> He was President of the Republican district executive committee from 1914 to 1932.<ref name="congressdirectory"/> He attended officers' training camp at Fort Niagara, New York in 1917.<ref name="congressdirectory"/> He was a member of the Board of Education of Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania from 1921 to 1932.<ref name="auto"/>
==Congressional service==
Welsh was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives of the 68th United States Congress and to the four succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1923, until his resignation May 31, 1932.<ref name="congressdirectory"/> He was Chairman of the Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions for the 69th United States Congress.<ref name="congressdirectory">{{cite web|title=George Austin Welsh (1878 – 1970)|url=http://bioguide.congress.gov/scripts/biodisplay.pl?index=W000289|publisher=Biographical Directory of the United States Congress|access-date=June 5, 2016}}</ref>
==Federal judicial service==
Welsh was nominated by President Herbert Hoover on April 14, 1932, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania vacated by Judge Joseph Whitaker Thompson.<ref name="auto"/> He was confirmed by the United States Senate on May 19, 1932, and received his commission on May 20, 1932.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Books|first1=L. L. C.|title=United States District Court Judges Appointed by Herbert Hoover: James Alger Fee, John Paul, Jr., Robert P. Patterson, Phillip Forman|publisher=General Books|isbn=9781155653693|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xqjRbwAACAAJ&q=%22George+Austin+Welsh%22|language=en|chapter=George Austin Welsh|date=May 2010}}</ref> He assumed senior status on August 29, 1957.<ref name="auto"/> His service terminated on October 22, 1970, due to his death in Media, Pennsylvania, where he resided.<ref name="congressdirectory"/> He was cremated and his ashes interred in West Laurel Hill Cemetery in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Political Graveyard: Index to Politicians: Wells-hannum to Wentsch|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/wellstone-wenstrom.html|website=politicalgraveyard.com|access-date=June 5, 2016}}</ref>
==Personal life ==
Welsh married Nellie Ross Wolf of Bermuda in 1906. They had two sons, William Austin Welsh and James Conwell Welsh. In 1921, he married for the 2nd time Helen Reed Kirk and they had three children together, Margaret, Patrick and Deborah.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Leonard|first1=John W.|title=Who's who in Pennsylvania: A Biographical Dictionary of Contemporaries|date=1939|publisher=L. R. Hammersly|pages=620|url=https://archive.org/details/whoswhoinpennsyl00leon|access-date=June 5, 2016|language=en}}</ref>
==References== {{Reflist}}
== Sources == * {{Biographical Directory of Congress|W000289|George Austin Welsh|author=|noid=y|inline=y}} * {{FJC Bio|2546|nid=1389591|name=George Austin Welsh<!--(1878–1970)-->}}
== Bibliography == * {{cite book|last1=Brown|first1=William Findlay |last2=Welsh|first2=George Austin |title=Supplement to digest of laws and ordinances concerning Philadelphia, with notes of decisions and city solicitors' opinions relating there to, 1905-1910|date=1910|publisher=The Compiler|location=Philadelphia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ohhHAQAAMAAJ&q=%22George+Austin+Welsh%22&pg=PA1378|language=En}} * {{cite book|last1=Congress|first1=United States|title=Official Congressional Directory|year=1921|publisher=U.S. Government Printing Office|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VLVFAQAAMAAJ&q=%22George+Austin+Welsh%22|language=en}} * {{cite book|last1=Committee|first1=Judicial Conference of the United States Bicentennial|title=Judges of the United States|date=1978|publisher=The Committee|page=548|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kfg_AAAAIAAJ&q=%22George+Austin+Welsh%22|language=en}} * {{cite book|last1=Willy|first1=Nethanel|title=George Austin Welsh - United States House of Representatives|date=2012|isbn=978-6200946584|pages=80}}
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