Winifred C. Stanley
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Winifred Claire Stanley (August 14, 1909 - February 29, 1996) was a United States Representative from New York. Born in Manhattan, she attended public schools there and in Buffalo. She received a B.A. (1930), an LL.B., and a J.D. (1933) from the University of Buffalo and was a lawyer in private practice. She was assistant district attorney of Erie County from 1938 to 1942.
Stanley was elected as a Republican to the Seventy-eighth Congress, holding office from January 3, 1943 to January 3, 1945. She was not a candidate for renomination to the Seventy-ninth Congress in 1944, and was appointed counsel to the New York State Employees' Retirement System, holding that position from 1945 to 1955. She was assistant attorney general of the New York State Law Department at Albany from 1955 to 1979 and in 1996 died in Kenmore. Interment in Mount Olivet Cemetery, Tonawanda.
