Larry Winn

Edward Lawrence " Larry " Winn Jr. ( born August 22, 1919 in Kansas City, Missouri ) is a former American politician. Between 1967 and 1985 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Larry Winn attended the public schools in Kansas City and then studied until 1941 at the University of Kansas in Lawrence. He then spent two years working for a radio station in his hometown and also two years for the aircraft manufacturer North American Aviation. He then worked in construction. Between 1950 and 1966 he was Vice President of Winn- Rau Corp.. Winn was for 14 years director of the National Association of Home Builders ( National Association of Home Ownership builders ); in Kansas, he was president of this association.

Politically Winn was a member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1966, he was elected in the third district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of Robert Fred Ellsworth on January 3, 1967. Since he was confirmed in the following eight choices each in his mandate, he was able to complete in 1985 for nine consecutive parliamentary terms in Congress until January 3. In this time were the first moon landing, and the Watergate scandal. In 1984 he gave up another candidacy.

After his time in Congress Larry Winn has had no other high political office. He now lives at an old age in Prairie Village (Kansas).