Martin Welker

Martin Welker (April 25, 1819 – March 15, 1902) was an American politician and judge who was a U.S. representative from Ohio for three terms from 1865 to 1871 and a district judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio from 1873 to 1889.

Education and career

Welker was born on April 25, 1819, in Knox County, Ohio. His father was an immigrant from the German Confederation and an early European pioneer in Ohio. Welker left the family farm at the age of 14 to take a job as a clerk in a store in Millersburg, Ohio. He attended the common schools and read law in 1840. In 1850, he again was offered the nomination, but declined it. He was a Judge of the Ohio Court of Common Pleas for the Sixth Judicial District from 1852 to 1857. serving from 1857 to 1858,