Background
Winant was born in New York City on February 23, 1889.
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Winant was born in New York City on February 23, 1889.
He was educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H. , and at Princeton University.
In 1912 he returned to St. Paul's School to teach English. In 1917 he was elected a representative in the legislature, and in 1921 he was elected to the state senate.
In 1925 he was elected governor of New Hampshire, and he served two more terms from 1931 to 1934. Winant was appointed a delegate to the International Labor Office at Geneva in 1935, and in the same year President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed him first chairman of the Social Security Board. He became director of the International Labor Office in 1939.
President Roosevelt appointed him ambassador to Great Britain in 1941, and he served until 1946. After this he worked with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
