Fountain Winston (November 3, 1793 – December 1, 1834) was an American

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from

Mississippi Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...

Biography

Born in

Germanton, North Carolina Germanton is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Forsyth and Stokes counties in the U.S. state of North Carolina, primarily in Stokes County. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 827. It is located south ...

as a son of

U.S. Representative The United States House of Representatives, often referred to as the House of Representatives, the U.S. House, or simply the House, is the lower chamber of the United States Congress, with the Senate being the upper chamber. Together they c ...

Joseph Winston Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Winston (June 17, 1746 – April 21, 1815) was an American pioneer, planter and American Revolutionary War hero from Surry County, North Carolina, and the first cousin of statesman and Virginia governor Patrick Henry. ...

, a brother of

Mississippi Supreme Court The Supreme Court of Mississippi is the highest court in the state of Mississippi. It was established in the first constitution of the state following its admission as a State of the Union in 1817 and was known as the High Court of Errors and App ...

justice Louis L. Winston, and brother-in-law of Robert Williams, another North Carolina Representative. Winston served as a member of

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from 1826 to 1830. He was the sixth

Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi The lieutenant governor of Mississippi is the second-highest ranking executive officer in Mississippi, below the governor of Mississippi. The office of lieutenant governor was established when Mississippi became a state, abolished for a few decade ...

in 1832 under Governor Abram M. Scott. He was the last to hold the office of lieutenant governor, which was eliminated under a revised state constitution, and was not reinstated until passage of Mississippi's post-Civil War constitution in 1869. Winston served again in the Mississippi Senate in 1833. Winston died in Natchez, Mississippi on December 1, 1834.

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1793 births 1834 deaths Lieutenant Governors of Mississippi Mississippi state senators People from Germanton, North Carolina 19th-century American politicians {{Mississippi-politician-stub