- WINANS, John; was born at Vernon, Sussex County, New Jersey,
September 27, 1831; was
- educated in private and common schools; studied law; was
admitted to the bar in 1855, and engaged in practice; removed
to Wisconsin in 1857, and settled at Janesville; was City Attorney
five terms between 1865 and 1875; was a Delegate to the Democratic
National Convention of 1864; was a Representative in the State
Legislature in 1874 and 1882; was a member of the military staff
of the Governor, with rank of Colonel, in 1874 and 1875; was
elected a Representative from Wisconsin to the Forty-eighth Congress.
- [Taken from "Biographical Annals of the Civil Government
of the United States" by Charles Lanman; (c)1887 J. M. Morrison,
Publisher, New York; p. 548]
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