Thomas E. Winn

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Thomas Elisha Winn (May 21, 1839 - June 5, 1925) was a U.S. Representative from Georgia.

Born near Athens, Georgia, Winn attended Carrollton (Georgia) Masonic Institute, and graduated from Emory and Henry College, Emory, Virginia, in 1860. He studied law. He was admitted to the bar in 1861 and commenced practice in Alpharetta, Georgia. He served as solicitor of the county court of Milton County. He entered the Confederate States Army as a first lieutenant in 1861. He was promoted to captain, afterward, a major, and finally a lieutenant colonel, Twenty-fourth Regiment, Georgia Infantry, and served with Lee's army until the close of the Civil War. He engaged in agricultural pursuits in 1868. County school commissioner of Gwinnett County from 1876 to 1890, when he resigned.

Winn was elected as a Democrat to the Fifty-second Congress (March 4, 1891-March 3, 1893). He did not seek renomination in 1892 to the Fifty-third Congress. He resumed agricultural pursuits in Greene County, Georgia. He died in Atlanta, Georgia, on June 5, 1925. He was interred in Ridge Grove Cemetery, near Greensboro, Georgia.