Winfred Joseph Sanborn (December 2, 1869 – 1947) was on the Los Angeles City Council under an at-large election system from 1919 until a new city charter was adopted in 1925, when representation was changed to a fifteen-district system.
Sanborn served the new Ninth District from 1925 until 1931, and then, when Councilman Howard E.
Dorsey was killed in a motor accident in 1937, he was appointed to serve two more years.