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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—South CarolinaRichard WINN
(1750-1818)
WINN, Richard, a
Representative from South Carolina; born in Fauquier County, Va.,
in 1750; attended the common schools; moved to Georgia and then to
Fairfield County in South Carolina in 1768; served as a clerk in a
countinghouse; engaged in cotton buying and other mercantile
pursuits, and was a land surveyor; entered the Revolutionary Army
as a lieutenant and attained the rank of colonel of State militia;
after the war was promoted to the rank of major general of militia;
member, State assembly, 1779-1786; appointed superintendent of
Indian affairs for the Creek Nation in 1788; elected to the Third
Congress and reelected as a Republican to the Fourth Congress
(March 4, 1793-March 3, 1797); elected to the Seventh Congress to
fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Thomas Sumter;
reelected to the Eighth and to the four succeeding Congresses and
served from January 24, 1803, to March 3, 1813; moved to Tennessee
in 1813; became a planter, and continued in the mercantile business
until his death on his plantation at Duck River, Maury County,
Tenn., December 19, 1818; interment at Winnsboro, Fairfield County,
S.C.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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