{{Short description|American politician (1876–1947)}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Milton H. Welling | image = WELLING, MILTON H. HONORABLE LCCN2016859702 (cropped).jpg | birth_date = {{birth date|1876|01|25}} | birth_place = [[Farmington, Utah|Farmington]], [[Utah Territory]] | death_date = {{death date and age|1947|05|28|1876|01|25}} | death_place = [[Salt Lake City, Utah]] | state = [[Utah]] | office = Utah Secretary of State | term_start = 1928 | term_end = 1937 | state2 = [[Utah]] | district2 = [[Utah's 1st congressional district|1st]] | term_start2 = March 4, 1917 | term_end2 = March 3, 1921 | preceded2 = [[Joseph Howell]] | succeeded2 = [[Don B. Colton]] | office3 = Member of the [[Utah House of Representatives]] | term3 = 1911–1915 | party = [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democratic]] | spouse = Sarah Brackett <br> Alice Ward | children = 5 | alma_mater = [[University of Utah]] | resting_place = Fielding Cemetery, [[Fielding, Utah]] }}

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== Early life and education == Born in [[Farmington, Utah|Farmington]], [[Utah Territory]], Welling attended the common schools, the [[Latter-day Saints' University]], and the [[University of Utah]], the last of which he received a degree from. From 1896 to 1898 Welling served as a [[Mormon missionary|missionary]] for [[the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints]] (LDS Church) in the church's Southern States [[Mission (LDS Church)|Mission]].<ref name="Jenson. p. 770">Jenson. ''LDS Biographical Encyclopedia'', Vol. 1, p. 770</ref>

== Career == He engaged in agricultural and mercantile pursuits and also in banking. Starting in 1902, Welling was the president of the LDS Church's Malad [[Stake (Latter Day Saints)|Stake]] headquartered in [[Malad, Idaho]].<ref name="Jenson. p. 770"/> He was elected a member of the board of trustees of Brigham Young College, [[Logan, Utah]], in 1906.

When the Bear River [[Stake (Latter Day Saints)|Stake]] of the LDS Church, based in [[Garland, Utah]] was organized in 1908, Welling became its first president.<ref>''LDS Church Almanac'', 2008 Edition, p. 276</ref> He served in this calling until 1917.<ref>Jenson. ''Encyclopedic History of the Church'', (Salt Lake City: Deseret News Press, 1941) p. 49</ref>

== Political career == Welling served in the [[Utah House of Representatives]] from 1911 to 1915.

=== Congress === Welling was elected as a [[Democratic Party (United States)|Democrat]] to the [[65th United States Congress|Sixty-fifth]] and [[66th United States Congress|Sixty-sixth]] Congresses (March 4, 1917 – March 3, 1921). He did not seek renomination, but was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the [[United States Senate]] in 1920.

== Later career == Welling served as director of registration for the State of Utah 1925–1928. Welling also served as president of the Bear River Stake again from 1925–1929.<ref>Jenson. ''Encyclopedic History'', p. 49</ref>

Welling was elected secretary of state of Utah in 1928. He was reelected in 1932 and served until January 1, 1937. Meanwhile, he served on the Board of Trustees of [[Utah State Agricultural College]] from 1926 to 1936 and as a Regent over the [[University of Utah]] from 1928 to 1936. After fulfilling these responsibilities, Welling was appointed by Secretary of Interior Harold L. Ickes to make a survey of public grazing lands in 1937 and 1938. Later, he resumed agricultural and mining operations.

== Death and burial == In January 1943, Welling accepted war service appointment as auditor with Army Air Forces and also served with the War Assets Administration at [[Salt Lake City, Utah]], until his death May 28, 1947.

He was interred in Fielding Cemetery, [[Fielding, Utah]].

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