Charles E. Winter

For other people with the same name, see Charles Winter (disambiguation).
Charles E. Winter
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Wyoming's At-large district
In office
March 4, 1923 – March 3, 1929
Preceded by Frank W. Mondell
Succeeded by Vincent M. Carter
Personal details
Born (1870-09-13)September 13, 1870
Muscatine, Iowa
Died April 22, 1948(1948-04-22) (aged 77)
Casper, Wyoming
Political party Republican
Alma mater Nebraska Wesleyan University
Occupation Attorney
Judge
Author

Charles Edwin Winter (September 13, 1870 – April 22, 1948) was a United States Representative from Wyoming.

Born in Muscatine, Iowa, he attended public schools and Iowa Wesleyan College at Mount Pleasant. He graduated from the Nebraska Wesleyan University at Lincoln in 1892, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1895 and commenced practice in Omaha, Nebraska. He moved to Encampment, Wyoming in 1902 and to Casper, Wyoming in 1903. He was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1908 and was a judge of the sixth judicial district of Wyoming from 1913 to 1919. He resigned from the bench and resumed the practice of law at Casper.

Winter was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-eighth, Sixty-ninth, and Seventieth Congresses, serving from March 4, 1923 to March 3, 1929; he was not a candidate for renomination in 1928, but was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the U.S. Senate. He was attorney general of Puerto Rico in 1932 and 1933, and served as Acting Governor. He resumed the practice of law, and died in Casper; interment was in Highland Cemetery.

During the summer of 1903, while traveling on a train in Pennsylvania, Winter wrote the lyrics to "Wyoming", the official state song. His western novels included Grandon of Sierra, about a cowboy who gives up ranging to be a prospector in the Encampment copper rush, and Ben Warman, filmed several times, firstly as Dangerous Love (1920 film). Gold of Freedom was set in Wyoming's South Pass.[1]

References

  1. ↑ Velma Linford - Wyoming, Frontier State 1947- Page 389 In Encampment, Charles Winter, later Wyoming Representative to Congress, wrote Grandon of Sierra, a story of the Encampment copper era, and Ben Warman. Winter used the South Pass as a setting for his recent book, Gold of Freedom."
United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
Frank W. Mondell		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Wyoming's at-large congressional district
March 4, 1923 – March 3, 1929 		Succeeded by
Vincent M. Carter
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