Fountain Winston

Born in Germanton, North Carolina as a son of U.S. Representative Joseph Winston, a brother of Mississippi Supreme Court justice Louis L. Winston, and brother-in-law of Robert Williams, another North Carolina Representative.

Winston served as a member of Mississippi Senate from 1826 to 1830.{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=UPExAQAAMAAJ&dq=%22o.c.+french%22+mississippi&pg=PA438|title = A History of Mississippi: From the Discovery of the Great River by Hernando DeSoto, Including the Earliest Settlement Made by the French Under Iberville, to the Death of Jefferson Davis|isbn = 9780404046101|last1 = Lowry|first1 = Robert|last2 = McCardle|first2 = William H.| publisher=AMS Press }} He was the sixth Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi 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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