Charles Edwin Winter was born in Muscatine, Iowa, September 13. 1870; attended the public schools and Iowa Wesleyan University at Mount Pleasant: graduated from the Nebraska Wesleyan University at Lincoln in 1892, received a PhD degree; studied law, admitted to the Nebraska bar in 1895, commenced practice in Omaha the same year; attracted to Wyoming in 1902 during the development of the copper mining district in the southern part of the State. and Located in Encampment, Carbon County, where he practiced law for awhile; in 1913 moved to Casper and, in addition to a general law practice, became interested in irrigation, agriculture and mining; delegate to the Republican National Convention at Chicago in 1908; when the sixth judicial district was created in 1913, Governor Joseph Carey appointed him judge; elected to the sixth judicial district in 1914, which position he held until 1919, when he resigned to resume his law practice; in 1922 elected as a Republican to the House of Representatives of the Sixty ­Eighth Congress, served from March 4, 1923, until March 3, 1929, being elected for three terms; was an unsuccessful candidate for the United States Senate in 1928: chairman of the Liberty Loan Committee and Council of National Defense of Natrona County during the World War I; in March 1932, President Hoover nominated him for the important post of attorney general and acting governor of Puerto Rico, in which position he served from March ,1932, until October 21, 1933; Republican candidate for Representative to Congress in 1934 but was unsuccessful; member of American and Wyoming Bar Associations and American Law Institute; As of 1946, he was practicing law at Casper. Winter died Apr. 22, 1948 and is buried in Casper.

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