Levin Winder

{{short description|American politician (1757-1819)}}

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| order = 14th

| office = Governor of Maryland

| term_start = November 25, 1812

| term_end = January 2, 1816

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| predecessor = Robert Bowie

| successor = Charles Carnan Ridgely

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| birth_place = Somerset County, Province of Maryland, British America

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| death_place = Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.

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| father = William Winder (1714/15–1792)

| mother = Esther (Gillis) Winder

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Levin Winder (September 4, 1757 – July 1, 1819) in Baltimore, Maryland. During the Revolutionary War, he was appointed major of the 4th Maryland Regiment, finally attaining the rank of lieutenant colonel at war's end. After the war, he served with the Maryland Militia at the rank of brigadier general.

Winder served as the 14th governor of the state of Maryland in the United States from 1812 to 1816. He also served in the Maryland House of Delegates from 1789 to 1793. Winder was admitted as an original member of The Society of the Cincinnati of Maryland.Metcalf, Bryce (1938). Original Members and Other Officers Eligible to the Society of the Cincinnati, 1783-1938: With the Institution, Rules of Admission, and Lists of the Officers of the General and State Societies Strasburg, VA: Shenandoah Publishing House, Inc. p. 342.