Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index William Forrest Winter (born February 21, 1923) is a Mississippi politician. He served as governor of Mississippi from 1980 to 1984 as a Democrat. After finishing his term, he unsuccessfully ran for the United States Senate that year against Republican incumbent Thad Cochran. William Winter (1898-1955) was a British chess player. He won the British Chess Championship in 1935 and 1936, and beat a number of the world's top players including Aron Nimzowitsch, Milan Vidmar and David Bronstein. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.