Fountain Winston was an American

United States

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 politician

Politician

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 from Mississippi

Mississippi

Mississippi is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The name of the state derives from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, whose name comes from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi...

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Biography

Born in Germantown

Germantown, North Carolina

Germantown is a community in Hyde County, North Carolina. It is at the intersection of Swindell Rd. and NC-1140. Germantown is approximately 52.66 miles east-southeast of Greenville, North Carolina, 44 miles southeast of Williamston, North Carolina, and 240.4 miles south-southeast of Washington,...

 (Stokes County

Stokes County, North Carolina

-Demographics:As of the census of 2000, there were 44,711 people, 17,579 households, and 13,043 families residing in the county. The population density was 99 people per square mile . There were 19,262 housing units at an average density of 43 per square mile...

, North Carolina

North Carolina

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) as a son of the Representative Joseph Winston

Joseph Winston

Col. Joseph Winston was an American pioneer, planter and Revolutionary War hero from North Carolina, and the first cousin of statesman and Virginia governor Patrick Henry...

. He was also a brother of Louis Winston, future Mississippi Supreme Court justice and brother-in-law of Robert Williams

Robert Williams (American politician)

Robert Williams was a Democratic-Republican U.S. Congressman from North Carolina between 1797 and 1803 and the Governor of the Mississippi Territory from 1805 to 1809...

, another North Carolina Representative and later territorial Governor of Mississippi.

Winston served as a member of Mississippi Senate from 1827 to 1828 and, most notably, as a 6th Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi

Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi

The Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi is the second-highest ranking executive officer in Mississippi, right below the governor. The office of lieutenant governor was established when Mississippi became a state, abolished for a few decades in the first half of the 19th century, and restored later...

 (1832) and the last to hold this office, due to constitutional changes (Lt. Governorship was reinstates in 1870).

Winston died in Natchez, Mississippi

Natchez, Mississippi

Natchez is the county seat of Adams County, Mississippi, United States. With a total population of 18,464 , it is the largest community and the only incorporated municipality within Adams County...

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