Peter F. Welch (born May 2, 1947) is the United States Representative for the U.S. state of Vermont's at-large congressional seat. He also served as a Vermont State Senator (D-Windsor) where he had also been minority leader and president pro tempore.
Welch was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1947. He attended local Catholic schools there (Holy Name Grammar School and Cathedral High School). Welch attended College of the Holy Cross, graduat...
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Peter F. Welch (born May 2, 1947) is the United States Representative for the U.S. state of Vermont's at-large congressional seat. He also served as a Vermont State Senator (D-Windsor) where he had also been minority leader and president pro tempore.
Welch was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1947. He attended local Catholic schools there (Holy Name Grammar School and Cathedral High School). Welch attended College of the Holy Cross, graduating magna cum laude in 1969. In 1973 he earned a law degree from Boalt Hall, the law school of the University of California, Berkeley.
He is a partner in the personal injury law firm Welch, Graham & Manby, White River Junction, Vermont.
Welch married Joan Smith, a mother of five children, in 1976. Smith died of cancer in 2004. In 2009, Welch remarried, this time to Margaret Cheney. She has 3 children from a previous marriage.
In 1980, Welch was elected to the Vermont Senate as a representative from Windsor County. In his second term, Welch...
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