Winthrop Welles Ketchum

Winthrop Welles Ketchum

Winthrop Welles Ketchum (June 29, 1820–December 6, 1879) was a Republican member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Pennsylvania.

Winthrop W. Ketchum was born in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. He pursued classical studies, and served as an instructor in Wyoming Seminary in Kingston, Pennsylvania, from 1844 to 1847 and in Girard College in Philadelphia in 1848 and 1849. He studied law, was admitted to the bar January 8, 1850, and practiced. He served as prothonotary of Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, from 1855 to 1857. He served as a member of the Pennsylvania State House of Representatives in 1858. He served in the Pennsylvania State Senate from 1859 to 1861. He was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1860 and 1864. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1864. He served as solicitor of the United States Court of Claims from 1864 to 1866.

Ketchum was elected as a Republican to the Forty-fourth Congress and served until his resignation in 1876. He became judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania and served until his death in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in 1879. Interment in Hollenback Cemetery in Wilkes-Barre.

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