Emil Welti

Emil Welti (born April 23, 1825, Zurzach, Switz.—died Feb. 24, 1899, Bern) was a statesman, six times president of the Swiss Confederation, and a champion of federal centralization. Political leader and Landammann (chief executive) of his native canton of Aargau in 1858, 1862, and 1866, Welti entered the federal Ständerat (council of cantons) in 1857 and subsequently served as assembly president (1860, 1866). Elected to the federal executive (Bundesrat) in December 1866, he served six...