What is Peter Welch?
{{Infobox officeholder |name = Peter Welch |image = Peter Welch official Senate photo.jpg | jr/sr = United States Senator |predecessor = [[Patrick Leahy]] |state = [[Vermont]] |term_start = January 3, 2023 |state1 = [[Vermont]] |alongside = [[Bernie Sanders]] |district1 = {{ushr|VT|AL|at-large}} |term_start1 = January 3, 2007 |term_end1 = January 3, 2023 |predecessor1 = [[Bernie Sanders]] |successor1 = [[Becca Balint]] |office2 = 73rd and 78th [[President pro tempore of the Vermont State Senate|President pro tempore of the Vermont Senate]] |predecessor2 = Peter Shumlin |successor2 = [[Peter Shumlin]] |term_start2 = January 8, 2003 |term_end2 = January 3, 2007 |predecessor3 = [[Robert A. Bloomer]] |successor3 = [[Doug Racine]] |term_start3 = January 9, 1985 |term_end3 = January 4, 1989 |office4 = Minority Leader of the [[Vermont Senate]] |term_start4 = January 5, 1983 |term_end4 = January 8, 1985 |predecessor4 = Robert V. Daniels |successor4 = Allen D. Avery |state_senate5 = Vermont |district5 = [[Windsor County, Vermont|Windsor]] |alongside5 = [[John F. Campbell (politician)|John Campbell]], [[Richard McCormack (politician)|Richard McCormack]] |term_start5 = December 13, 2001 |term_end5 = January 3, 2007 |predecessor5 = [[Cheryl Rivers]] |successor5 = [[Alice Nitka]] |alongside6 = Chester Scott, John Howland, [[Edgar May]], William Hunter |term_start6 = January 7, 1981 |term_end6 = January 4, 1989 |predecessor6 = Herbert Ogden |successor6 = Richard McCormack |birth_name = Peter Francis Welch |birth_date = {{birth date and age|1947|5|2}} |birth_place = [[Springfield, Massachusetts]], U.S. |death_date = |death_place = |p