Winston L. Prouty

Winston Lewis Prouty ( born September 1, 1906 in Newport, Orleans County, Vermont, † September 10, 1971 in Boston, Massachusetts ) was an American politician ( Republican), who represented the state of Vermont in both chambers of the U.S. Congress.

Background and Career

Winston Prouty came from a family that had come through wood and building material trading assets. Owned by the company Prouty & Miller, several forest areas were east of the Mississippi as well as in Canada. His uncle George H. Prouty was also politicians and 1908-1910 Governor of Vermont.

After his schooling at a boarding school in Pottstown (Pennsylvania), Prouty attended Yale College, which he however had to leave early for family reasons. He later continued his education at Lafayette College in Easton, where he made his 1930 financial statements. He then joined the family business, where he rose to become director.

Political career

From 1938 to 1941, Winston Prouty mayor of his home town of Newport. Immediately afterwards he moved for the first time as a deputy to the House of Representatives from Vermont, where he also in 1945 and 1947 belonged to the function of the speaker. The usual at this time careers for an aspiring politician in Vermont have now provided a place in the state Senate, where the office of President pro tempore, but Prouty wanted to skip this step and ran for the office of Lieutenant Governor. However, the nomination of his party went to the conservative set Harold J. Arthur, the incumbent Senate President pro tempore, who then won the election itself.

Governor Ernest W. Gibson, as a liberal Republican, a mentor Prouty's called, this 1948 as Chairman of the Water Protection Agency of Vermont. After Gibson had in 1950 adopted an appeal to the Federal District Judge Harold Arthur enlisted as his deputy according to the office. When Charles Plumley, Vermont's sole representative in the House of Representatives of the United States, renounced in the same year for re-election to Prouty applied for the vacant seat, while Arthur, who would normally have been his greatest rival within the party, as governor could not stand. Prouty won the election and moved into the Congress on January 3, 1951.

After three re-election Prouty did not occur in 1958, and retired on January 3, 1959 the House of Representatives from. He had instead a candidate for the U.S. Senate and decided the choice for themselves. Again he won re- election in the years 1964 and 1970; However, he died a few months into his third term of office of cancer. Winston Prouty was buried in the Pine Grove Cemetery of Vermont; U.S. President Richard Nixon held a memorial speech.

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