This is a list of United States national Golden Gloves champions in the welterweight division, along with the state or region they represented. The weight limit for welterweights was first contested at , but was increased to in 2003. 1928 – Nick Fosco – Chicago 1929 – Bud Hammer – Chicago 1930 – Karl Ogren – Chicago 1931 – George Keenan – Chicago 1932 – Johnny Phagan – Chicago 1933 – Henry Rothier – Davenport 1934 – Danny Farrar – Cleveland 1935 – King Wyatt – Fort Wayne 1936 – Chester Rutecki – Chicago 1937 – Verne Patterson – Chicago 1938 – James O'Malley – Chicago 1939 – Milton Jones – St. Louis 1940 – Savior Canadeo – Chicago 1941 – Geo. W. Horne, Jr. – Cleveland 1942 – Bob Burns – Fort Wayne 1943 – Ballessando Carubia – Chicago 1944 – Yevi Soluthali – Peoria 1945 – Gilbert Garcia – Fort Worth 1946 – Julius Menendez – Chicago 1947 – John Keough – Cleveland 1948 – Richard Guerrero – Chicago 1949 – Richard Guerrero – Chicago 1950 – Dick Anderson – Cleveland 1951 – Willard Henry – Kansas City 1952 – Herschel Acton – Los Angeles 1953 – Richard Wall – Oklahoma City 1954 – Rudy Sawyer – Great Lakes 1955 – Richard Wall – Tulsa 1956 – Leon Brooks – St. Louis 1957 – Joe Shaw – Kansas City 1958 – Dave Holman – Toledo 1959 – Don Sargeant – Minneapolis 1960 – Fred Hernandez – Omaha 1961 – Roy McMillian – Toledo 1962 – Rory O'Shea – Chicago 1963 – Wade Smith – Muncie 1964 – Don Cobbs – St. Louis 1965 – Don Cobbs – St. Louis 1966 – Hedgeman Lewis – Detroit 1967 – Pat O'Connor – Rochester, MN 1968 – Richard Royal – Charlotte 1969 – David Oropeza – Salt Lake City 1970 – Melvin Dennis – Fort Worth 1971 – Larry Carlisle – Charlotte 1972 – Jesse Valdez – Las Vegas 1973 – Harold Beal – Kansas City 1974 – Clinton Jackson – Las Vegas 1975 – Clinton Jackson – Knoxville 1976 – Clinton Jackson – Knoxville 1977 – Mike McCallum – Miami 1978 – Jeffrey Stoudemire – Cleveland 1979 – Mike McCallum – Knoxville 1980 – Donald Curry – Fort Worth 1981 – Manuel Vallejo – Los Angeles 1982 – Roman George – Lafayette 1983 – Louis Howard – St. Louis 1984