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William Forrest Winter (February 21, 1923 – December 18, 2020) was an American attorney and politician who served as 58th governor of Mississippi from 1980 to 1984. A member of the Democratic Party, he also served as the lieutenant governor, state treasurer, state tax collector, and in the Mississippi House of Representatives .
Dec 22, 2020 · William F. Winter, a Mississippi politician who stood athwart the racism of many of his fellow white Democrats during the civil rights era and used his single term as governor to address...
For more than six decades, William F. Winter (b. 1923) has beenone of the most recognizable public figures in Mississippi. Hispolitical career spanned the 1940s...
Dec 19, 2020 · With the passing of Governor William F. Winter, Mississippi has lost one of its greatest champions of equality, reconciliation, and progress; and I have lost a friend, an inspiration, and one of the finest people I’ve ever known.
Dec 1, 2014 · In this biography Charles C. Bolton examines William F. Winter's long political career and his role in making a “new Mississippi.” He served his state for over sixty years and survived by walking a tightrope—steadfastly supporting segregation but rejecting massive resistance and extremism in favor of equalization, gradualism ...
Governor William F. Winter, 1923-2020. The country lost a leading figure in efforts to forge racial harmony and equality, while The National WWII Museum lost a friend and champion with the passing of Gov. William Winter (Mississippi, 1980-1984) on Friday, December 18, 2020.
Oct 1, 2013 · Winter served as governor of the state of Mississippi from 1980 to 1984. A voice of reason and compromise during the tumultuous civil rights battles, he represented the earliest embodiment of the white moderate politicians who emerged throughout the “New South.”
