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William Lee (Bill) Welch Jr. (November 23 1941 – September 4 2009) was a U.S. politician and former mayor of State College Pennsylvania most recently reelected in 2007. He had been the mayor since he was first elected in 1994 before which he was a member of the borough council. Mayor Welch died on September 4 2009 at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center in Hershey Pennsylvania after suffering complications from leg surgery. He was 67 years old.