Welker, Martin
lawyer, jurist, congressman, governor, educator, was born April 25, 1819, in Knox county, Ohio.
In 1851 he was elected a judge of the common pleas for the sixth district, serving five years. In 1857 he moved to Wooster, and was elected lieutenant-governor of Ohio, declining a renomination. In 1861 he was appointed a judge advocate, with the rank of major; and was soon afterwards appointed aide-de-camp and acting judge advocate-general, with the rank of colonel, under the governor of the state.
In 1862 he was an assistant adjutant-general, and superintended the draft of the state. In 1864 he was elected a representative from Ohio to the thirty-ninth congress. He was re-elected to the fortieth and forty-first congresses as a republican. and in 1873 was appointed United States judge for the northern district of Ohio.
He afterward became professor of political science, and of constitutional and international law in Wooster university. WELLBORN, MARSHALL JOHNSON, lawyer, congressman, was born May 29, 1808, in Putnam county, Ga. He was a representative in congress from Georgia from 1849 to 1851. He died Oct. 16, 1874, in Columbus, Ga.