Person:John Winston (9)

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Gov. John Anthony Winston
b.4 Sep 1812 Madison County, Alabama
d.21 Dec 1871 Mobile County, Alabama
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m. Bef 1812
  1. Gov. John Anthony Winston1812 - 1871
  2. Permelia Virginia Winston1820 - 1857
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Name Gov. John Anthony Winston
Gender Male
Birth? 4 Sep 1812 Madison County, Alabama
Marriage 7 Aug 1832 Madison County, Alabamato Mary Agness Jones
Death? 21 Dec 1871 Mobile County, Alabama
Reference Number? Q772110?
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About John A. Winston

John Anthony Winston (September 4, 1812 – December 21, 1871) was the 15th Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama from 1853 to 1857. He was born in 1812 in Madison County, Alabama and became the first native born governor of Alabama. He was a son of William Winston and Mary Cooper of Tuscumbia Alabama. William was a son of Anthony Winston and Keziah Jones former residents of Buckingham County Virginia. John Anthony Winston married his first cousin, Mary Agness Jones, (born ca. 1819 and died ca. 1835) on August 7, 1832 in Madison County Alabama. He died 21 December 1871 in Mobile, Alabama and is buried in the Winston Family Cemetery (privately owned) near Gainesville in Sumter County Alabama. He had only one child, a daughter, Mary Agnes Winston. In January 1867 he presented his credentials to the United States Senate as Senator-elect from Alabama for the term 1867-1873, but was not permitted to take his seat.

John Anthony Winston was also a first cousin to the wartime governor of Mississippi, John Jones Pettus, who was born in Wilson County Tennessee October 9, 1813 and died in Pulaski County Arkansas on January 25, 1867. John Jones Pettus' wife was his first cousin Permelia Virginia Winston (1809–1857) a sister of John Anthony Winston. Permelia Virginia Pettus is buried in the Winston Cemetery, Gainesville Sumter County Alabama.


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John Anthony Winston (September 4, 1812 – December 21, 1871) was a planter, military officer and politician who became the 15th Governor of Alabama (1853 to 1857) after serving as president of the state senate (1845-1849). Alabama's first native born governor, Winston later fought for the Confederate States of America as colonel of the 8th Alabama Infantry early in the American Civil War, and after the conflict was not permitted to assume a seat in the United States Senate.

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