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Thomas Elisha Winn (May 21, 1839 – June 5, 1925) was an American attorney and politician who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives for Georgia's 9th congressional district from 1891 to 1893.

Born near Athens, Georgia, Winn was the second child of Richard Dickinson and Charlotte Mitchell Winn.^[1] Winn attended Carrollton (Georgia) Masonic Institute, and graduated from Emory and Henry College. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1861 and commenced practice in Alpharetta, Georgia.

He entered the Confederate States Army as a first lieutenant in 1861. He was promoted to captain, then major, and finally a lieutenant colonel, in the Twenty-fourth Regiment, Georgia Infantry. He served with Lee's army (Army of Northern Virginia) until the close of the Civil War. After the War, he resumed his law practice in Milton County, Georgia, and served as solicitor of the county court for two years. In 1868 Winn left the law and pursued agriculture full-time, except for civic duties.

He was a Gwinnett County school commissioner from 1876 to 1890. He was a U.S. representative from Georgia representing Gwinnett County, Georgia, in the Fifty-second Congress. Winn was elected as a Democrat. He served one term from March 4, 1891, to March 3, 1893, and did not stand for reelection.

He died in Atlanta, Georgia, at the Confederate Soldiers' Home, on June 5, 1925, and was buried in the Ridge Grove Cemetery, near Greensboro, Georgia.^[2]

• Huff, Frederick Ware. Four Families: Winn, Thomas, Ware, Garrett of the Southern United States from 1600s to 1993. FWH: Kennesaw, GA., 1993. OCLC Number: 29382913

• United States Congress. "Thomas E. Winn (id: W000638)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.

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• Thomas E. Winn at Find a Grave