Winthrop Welles Ketcham
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| Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania | |
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In office June 26, 1876 – December 6, 1879 |
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| Nominated by | Ulysses S. Grant |
| Preceded by | Wilson McCandless |
| Succeeded by | Marcus Wilson Acheson |
| Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania's 12th district |
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In office March 4, 1875 – July 19, 1876 |
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| Preceded by | Lazarus D. Shoemaker |
| Succeeded by | William H. Stanton |
| Member of the Pennsylvania Senate | |
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In office 1859-1861 |
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| Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives | |
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In office 1858 |
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| Personal details | |
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June 29, 1820 Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania |
| Died | December 6, 1879 (aged 59) Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania |
| Political party | Republican |
Winthrop Welles Ketcham (sometimes spelled Ketchum, June 29, 1820 – December 6, 1879) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania, serving until June 1876. He resigned when appointed as a United States federal judge in western Pennsylvania. He served in Pittsburgh until his death.
Ketcham was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. His father, Lewis N. Ketcham, was a painter and cabinet-maker. At an early age Ketcham assisted his father in painting buildings in the city and lock-houses along the canal.
Ketcham pursued classical studies; he served as an instructor in Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania, from 1844 to 1847 and in Girard College in Philadelphia in 1848 and 1849. In 1846 he married Sarah Urquhart, with whom he had a daughter, Ella, and a son, J. Marshall.
After leaving the seminary, Ketcham read law in the offices of Lazarus Denison Shoemaker and Charles Denison. He was admitted to the bar in the several courts of Luzerne County on January 8, 1850, and practiced law in Wilkes-Barre from 1850 to 1855. (At that time the county included most of the area of the current Lackawanna County, which was not established until 1878.)
Ketcham became a Republican when that party was first organized, having been a Whig prior to that time. He was a delegate to the Chicago Republican National Convention in 1860, which nominated Abraham Lincoln for President, and a delegate at large to the Baltimore convention of 1864, when Lincoln was renominated. In 1868 he was a presidential elector from this state, and cast his vote for Ulysses Grant. In 1866, 1869, and 1872 he received votes in the Republican state conventions for the office of governor.
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