Background
Born in Germantown (Stokes County, North Carolina) as a son of the Representative Joseph Winston.
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He was also a brother of Louis Winston, future Mississippi Supreme Court justice and brother-in-law of Robert Williams, another North Carolina Representative. Winston died in Natchez, Mississippi.
Membership
Winston served as a member of Mississippi Senate from 1827 to 1828 and, most notably, as a sixth Lieutenant Governor of Mississippi (1832) under Governor Abram M. Scott and the last to hold this office, due to constitutional changes (Lieutenant Governorship was reinstated in 1870).
