H. H. Winter
Hermann Heinrich Winter was an American farmer from Watertown, Wisconsin who spent one term as a "Democratic Republican" member of the Wisconsin State Assembly from Jefferson County.
Background
Winter was born May 12, 1805, in the Free Imperial City of Bremen. Winter held a number of offices in the early years of the Town of Watertown, including town clerk 1853–54, school superintendent 1854, justice of the peace 1855, supervisor 1857, sealer 1859, and chairman of the town board 1860–61. As of 1860, Winter described himself as a native of Bremen, a farmer aged 55 who had been in Wisconsin for 16 years.
Winter was elected in 1859 for the 4th Jefferson County Assembly district, succeeding Democrat Ferdinand Wagner. He was appointed to the standing committee on charitable and religious institutions. He was succeeded by Democrat Samuel Hays.
He died December 28, 1884, and is buried in the Ebenezer Moravian Cemetery in Watertown.