Charles Edwin Winter (September 13, 1870April 22, 1948) was an American attorney, politician, and author who served as a member of the

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for

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from 1923 to 1929.

Early life and education

Born in

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, he attended public schools and

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in Mount Pleasant. He graduated from the

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in 1892, studied law, and was admitted to the

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in 1895.

Career

Winter began his legal career in

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. He moved to

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, in 1902 and to

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in 1903. He was a delegate to the

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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

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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

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. He was

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in 1932 and 1933, and served as

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. He later resumed the practice of law in Wyoming and died in Casper in 1948. During the summer of 1903, while traveling on a train in Pennsylvania, Winter wrote the lyrics to "

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", 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'', which was adapted into the 1920 film ''Dangerous Love''. ''Gold of Freedom'' was set in Wyoming's South Pass.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."

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Winter, Charles 1870 births 1948 deaths People from Muscatine, Iowa Wyoming state court judges Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Wyoming American Western (genre) novelists