Winifred C. Stanley

Winifred Claire Stanley ( born August 14, 1909 in New York City; † February 29, 1996 in Kenmore, New York) was an American politician. Between 1943 and 1945, she represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Winifred Stanley attended the public schools of her native New York and Buffalo. In 1930 she graduated from the University of Buffalo. After a subsequent law degree from the same university and its 1933 was admitted as a lawyer, she began to work in Buffalo in this profession. Between 1938 and 1942 she was Deputy District Attorney in Erie County. At the same time they hit as a member of the Republican Party launched a political career.

In the congressional elections of 1942, Stanley was in a state-wide electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where they took up their new mandate on January 3, 1943. Since they renounced in 1944 on another candidacy, she was able to complete only one term in Congress until January 3, 1945. This was marked by the events of the Second World War.

Between 1945 and 1955 she was a consultant to the pension administration of the State of New York. She then worked 1955-1979 as Assistant Attorney General for the Justice Department in their home state (New York State Law Department). Winifred Stanley died on 29 February 1996 in Kenmore and was buried in Tonawanda.