Larry Winn, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetLarry Winn
American politician
Date of Birth: 22-Aug-1919
Place of Birth: Kansas City, Missouri, United States
Date of Death: 31-Dec-2017
Profession: politician
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Larry Winn
- Edward Lawrence "Larry" Winn Jr.
- (August 22, 1919 – December 31, 2017) was an American politician and member of the U.S.
- House of Representatives representing Kansas's 3rd district from 1967 to 1985.
- He was a member of the Republican Party. Born in Kansas City, Missouri, Winn participated in athletics at Southwest High School before losing one of his legs in a boating accident at Lake Lotawana when he was sixteen.
- He earned a B.A.
- in journalism from University of Kansas in 1941.
- After graduating, Winn worked for a Kansas City radio station for two years and, during World War II, worked for North American Aviation at Fairfax Field, north of Kansas City, Kansas, where the B-25 Mitchell bomber was manufactured.
- He then pursued a career in home building and was vice president of the Winn-Rau Corporation from 1950 until his election to Congress.
- Additionally, he was a director of the National Association of Home Builders for fourteen years and was president of the Home Builders Association of Kansas.Winn was first elected to the U.S.
- House of Representatives as a Republican from the Wyandotte and Johnson Counties-based 3rd congressional district in 1966, succeeding three-term congressman Robert Ellsworth, and would be reelected eight more times until his retirement in 1984.
- During his tenure, he served on the House Committee on Foreign Affairs and was a congressional representative to the United Nations.
- He was succeeded by fellow Republican Jan Meyers. Winn met his wife, Joan Elliott, while attending college and the two would be married for seventy-three years until her death in 2015.
- Together, they had five children; the death of their son Robert in 1983 played a part in the senior Winn's decision to retire from Congress.
- He lived in Prairie Village until his death on December 31, 2017 at age 98.
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