In April 1841 he was elected township clerk and justice of the peace the following year.
He was elected township clerk in 1888 and re-elected in 1889.
He served as township clerk for three years.
Welford served as township clerk at Pembina for twenty years.
Terry Nichols sent a letter to the local township clerk renouncing his right to vote because "there is total corruption in the entire political system."
Andrew Kehoe, the 55-year-old school board treasurer, was angry after his defeat in the spring 1926 election for township clerk.
He also was a public school trustee and was township clerk and treasurer for 20 years.
He was a township clerk 1802-1804.
It is named for R. V. Langdon, the first township clerk.
He served as reeve for the township and then was township clerk and treasurer from 1915 until his death in 1931.