W. Arthur Winstead
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William Arthur Winstead (January 6, 1904 – March 14, 1995) was a U.S. Representative from Mississippi.
Born near Philadelphia, Mississippi, Winstead attended the public schools Clarke Memorial College, in Newton, Mississippi, and the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa. He graduated from Mississippi Southern College at Hattiesburg in 1931. Winstead was an agriculturalist and superintendent of education of Neshoba County, Mississippi from 1935 to 1942.
He was elected as a Democrat to the Seventy-eighth and to the ten succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1943-January 3, 1965). He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1964 to the Eighty-ninth Congress. He resumed agricultural pursuits and later became an automobile dealer. He served the commissioner for the, Mississippi Department of Public Welfare from 1968 to 1971. He died March 14, 1995 in Philadelphia, Mississippi and was interred at Cedar Lawn Cemetery, Philadelphia, Mississippi.
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| NAME | Winstead, William Arthur |
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| SHORT DESCRIPTION | Mississippi Representative |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 6, 1904 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | near Philadelphia, Mississippi |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 14, 1995 |
| PLACE OF DEATH | Philadelphia, Mississippi |
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