Samuel Winslow

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Samuel Ellsworth Winslow
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 4th district
In office
March 4, 1913  March 3, 1925
Preceded by William Wilder
Succeeded by George R. Stobbs
28th Mayor of
Worcester, Massachusetts
In office
1886–1889
Preceded by Charles G. Reed
Personal details
Born Worcester, Massachusetts
Political party Republican
Alma mater Harvard

Samuel Ellsworth Winslow (April 11, 1862 – July 11, 1940) was a Representative from Massachusetts.

Biography

Winslow was born in Worcester, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University in 1885, where he was a member of Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity.

Winslow was appointed as a colonel on the staff of Governor John Q. A. Brackett in 1890. He was chairman of the Republican city committee of Worcester from 1890 to 1892, and became chairman of the Republican State committee in 1893. He was delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1908. He was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-third congress, and to the five succeeding Congresses. Winslow was also mayor of Worcester from 1886–1889.

Winslow was the chairman in the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce during the Sixty-seventh and Sixty-eighth Congresses. He was appointed by Calvin Coolidge in 1926 as a member of the United States Board of Mediation, for the disposition of disputes between carriers and their employees. He was chosen chairman, and served until 1934.

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by
William Wilder
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Massachusetts's 4th congressional district

March 4, 1913 – March 3, 1925
Succeeded by
George R. Stobbs
Political offices
Preceded by
Charles G. Reed
28th Mayor of Worcester, Massachusetts
1886–1889
Succeeded by
Francis A. Harrington
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