Winans, Edwin Baruch

Name: Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 - Winans, Edwin Baruch
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Winans, Edwin Baruch, a Representative from Michigan; born in Avon, Livingston County, N.Y., May 16, 1826; moved with his parents to Michigan in 1834; attended Albion College, Michigan; went to California and engaged in mining on the North Yuba River, near Placerville, in 1850; worked in different parts of the State until 1857; returned to Michigan in 1858 and settled in Hamburg, Livingston County, where he engaged in agricultural pursuits; member of the State house of representatives 1861-1865; delegate to the State constitutional convention of May 15, 1867; probate judge of Livingston County 1877-1881; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-eighth and Forty-ninth Congresses (March 4, 1883-March 3, 1887); resumed agricultural pursuits in Livingston County, Mich.; Governor of Michigan 1891-1893; died in Hamburg, Mich., July 4, 1894; interment in Hamburg Cemetery.

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Chicago: U.S. Congress, "Winans, Edwin Baruch," Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949 in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.2032 Original Sources, accessed November 3, 2025, http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CPFNS9PLP98JH55.

MLA: U.S. Congress. "Winans, Edwin Baruch." Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949, in U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.2032, Original Sources. 3 Nov. 2025. http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CPFNS9PLP98JH55.

Harvard: U.S. Congress, 'Winans, Edwin Baruch' in Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1949. cited in , U.S. Congress, Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774–1949 (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1950), P.2032. Original Sources, retrieved 3 November 2025, from http://www.originalsources.com/Document.aspx?DocID=CPFNS9PLP98JH55.