Fountain Winston

Fountain Winston (born November 3, 1793 in Germantown , Hyde County , North Carolina , †  December 1, 1834 in Natchez , Mississippi ) was an American politician . In 1832 he was lieutenant governor of the state of Mississippi.

Career

Fountain Wilson was the son of Congressman Joseph Winston (1746-1815) and a brother-in-law of Robert Williams (1773-1836), who also sat for North Carolina in the United States House of Representatives and was governor of the Mississippi Territory . There is no information in the sources about his school education or his professional career beyond politics. In the 1820s he joined the movement around the future President Andrew Jackson and became a member of the Democratic Party founded by this in 1828 . He was a member of the Mississippi Senate in 1827 and 1828 .

In 1831 Winston was elected lieutenant governor of his state at the side of Abram M. Scott . He held this office since January 9, 1832. In the same year, the office of lieutenant governor of Mississippi was abolished by a reform of the state constitution. With that Winston lost his newly won post. The office was only reintroduced in 1870 through another constitutional reform. He died in Natchez on December 1, 1834.

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