Winthrop Welles Ketcham

Nonpartisan

Prior offices:

United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania

Years in office: 1876 - 1879

Education

Law

Read law, 1850

Personal

Birthplace

Wilkes-Barre, PA

Winthrop Welles Ketcham (1820-1879) was afederal judge on theUnited States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania.

He was nominated by PresidentUlysses Grant on June 7, 1876. He was confirmed by the Senate onJune 26, 1876,^[1] and received commission that same day. He served until his death onDecember 6, 1879. Ketcham was succeeded in this position byMarcus Wilson Acheson.

Early life and education

• Read law, 1850

Professional career

• Teacher, Girard College, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1848-1849
• Private practice, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1850-1855
• Prothonotary, Luzerne County, Pennsylvania, 1855-1858
• Pennsylvania state representative, 1858
• Pennsylvania state senator, 1859-1861
• Private practice, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1861-1863
• Solicitor, U.S. Court of Claims, 1864-1866
• Private practice, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, 1867-1873
• U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania, 1873-1876

Judicial career

Western District of Pennsylvania

Ketcham was nominated by PresidentUlysses Grant on June 7, 1876. He was confirmed by the Senate onJune 26, 1876, and received commission that same day. He served until his death onDecember 6, 1879.^[1] Ketcham was succeeded in this position byMarcus Wilson Acheson.

External links

• Biography from theFederal Judicial Center.

Footnotes

v • e Federal judges nominated byUlysses Grant
1869	Dillon •Drummond •Gresham •Hillyer •McKennan •Shepley •Woodruff •Woods
1870	Blodgett •Bond •Bradley •Charles Daniel Drake •Emmons •Hopkins •Humphreys •Knowles •Longyear •MacArthur •Nixon •Sawyer •Strong •Winch
1871	Bradford •McKinney •Rives •Story •Swing
1872	Dick •Hunt •Locke •Morrill
1873	Howe •Shipman •Welker
1874	Foster •Hughes •Richarson •Waite •Wallace
1875	Brown •Bruce •Dyer •Johnson •Parker
1876 -77	Billings •Hallett •Ketcham •Settle

v • e Federal judges who have served theUnited States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania
Active judges	Chief Judge: Cathy Bissoon  •  Susan Baxter  •  Robert J. Colville  •  Marilyn J. Horan  •  Mark Raymond Hornak  •  J. Nicholas Ranjan  •  Stephanie Haines  •  William Shaw Stickman  •  Scott Hardy  •  Christy Wiegand
Senior judges	Nora Fischer  •  Arthur Schwab  •  David Cercone  •  Joy Conti  •
Magistrate judges	Keith Pesto  •  Maureen Kelly  •  Patricia Dodge  •  Richard Lanzillo  •  Kezia Taylor  •  Christopher Brown (Pennsylvania)  •
Former Article III judges	William Knox  •  Jonathan Hoge Walker  •  William Wilkins  •  Thomas Irwin  •  Wilson McCandless  •  Winthrop Welles Ketcham  •  Marcus Wilson Acheson  •  Joseph Weis (Third Circuit)  •  Brooks Smith  •  Thomas Hardiman  •  Joseph Buffington  •  Timothy Lewis (Pennsylvania)  •  James Hay Reed  •  Nathaniel Ewing  •  James Scott Young  •  Charles Prentiss Orr  •  W. H. Seward Thomson  •  Robert Murray Gibson  •  Alan Bloch  •  Maurice Cohill  •  Gustave Diamond  •  William Standish  •  Gary Lancaster  •  Terrence McVerry  •  Sean McLaughlin  •  Frederic Palen Schoonmaker  •  Nelson McVicar  •  Frederick Follmer  •  Carol Mansmann  •  Owen Burns  •  Robert Cindrich  •  Edward Dumbauld  •  Wallace Gourley  •  Rabe Marsh  •  Barron McCune  •  John McIlvaine  •  Glenn Mencer  •  John Lester Miller  •  Louis Rosenberg  •  Ralph Scalera  •  Daniel Snyder  •  Herbert Sorg  •  William Stewart (Pennsylvania)  •  Hubert Teitelbaum  •  Gerald Weber  •  Joseph Willson  •  Donald Ziegler  •  Donald Lee  •  Paul Simmons  •  Peter Phipps  •
Former Chief judges	Robert Murray Gibson  •  Donetta Ambrose  •  Maurice Cohill  •  Gustave Diamond  •  Gary Lancaster  •  Nelson McVicar  •  Wallace Gourley  •  Rabe Marsh  •  Herbert Sorg  •  Hubert Teitelbaum  •  Gerald Weber  •  Donald Ziegler  •  Mark Raymond Hornak  •