Thomas Daniel Winter

Thomas Daniel Winter (* July 7, 1896 in Columbus, Cherokee County, Kansas; † November 7, 1951 in Pittsburg, Kansas ) was an American politician. Between 1939 and 1947 he represented the third electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Thomas Winter attended primary and secondary schools of his home. During the First World War, he was from 1918 to 1919 soldier in the U.S. Army Air Corps. Between 1921 and 1927 he was a clerk at the District Court in Crawford County, Kansas. At the same time he studied law itself. After his made ​​in 1926 admitted to the bar he began in Girard to work in his new profession. From 1927 to 1928 he was deputy and 1929-1930 regular district attorney. Between 1933 and 1935 winter was employed by the municipal utility of Girard and from 1936 to 1938 he was treasurer of the city.

Politically, winter member of the Republican Party. In 1938 he was chosen as their candidate in the third district of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he succeeded the Democrats Edward White Patterson on January 3, 1939. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress, who were largely shaped by the events during and after the Second World War to the January 3, 1947 four legislative sessions. For the elections of 1946, Winter was not nominated by his party.

After the end of his time in Congress to Winter withdrew from politics and resumed the lawyer. He died on 7 November 1951 in Pittsburg and was buried in Columbus.