John Gilbert Winant

Three-time New Hampshire Governor and World War II U. S. Ambassador to Great Britain (Court of St. James) John Gilbert Winant, state house portrait, second floor hallway, senate side. Dean Dexter photo.

Author Lynne Olson's new book, Citizens of London, The Americans Who Stood With Britain in its Darkest, Finest Hour, due out in February, 2010 looks at the key roles played by three Americans in London during World War II, New Hampshire's ex-Governor John G. Winant, the U.S. Ambassador who replaced the pro-Nazi Joseph P. Kennedy, CBS legend Edward R. Murrow, and Lend-Lease Administrator and former New York Governor Averill Harriman. Order it here. Lynne Olson Website

Our Man In London, Part 1 - Mike Pride in the Concord Monitor

Our Man in London; The War Years, Part 2 - Mike Pride in the Concord Monitor

One of the Great 'What-Ifs" of History

We Can Stand with Them as Free Men - John Gilbert Winant

Eventually, John Winant Ended Up at St. Paul's School

Winant Chronology

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Governor's Reception, New Hampshire State House

Author Lynne Olson speaking during Governor's reception, Executive Chambers, New Hampshire State House, March 4, 2010. Seated at her immediate right is former Governor Stephen E. Merrill. At far right is Rivington Winant, son of the New Hampshire Governor and U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant, a main subject of her book, Citizens of London. Rivington served 28 years as treasurer of the United Nations. Event emcee, former State Representative Dean Dexter, standing left.

Governor's reception for author Lynne Olson, Executive Chambers, New Hampshire State House, Concord, NH, March 4, 2010. From left NH Secretary of State William M. Gardner event chairman, Mike Pride, author and former editor, Concord Monitor, Abigail Dexter, New Hampshire Governor John Lynch, Olson, Peter Thomson, director, NH Highway Safety Agency, son of the late Governor Meldrim Thomson, Rivington Winant, retired treasurer of the United Nations and son of the late Governor and U.S. Ambassador to London, John Gilbert Winant (portrait in rear), and Dean Dexter, reception emcee.

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U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant, embassy office, December 1, 1945, Life Magazine

Seen on the cruiser Quincy in Egypt after the Yalta Conference in February 1945, are (seated, left to right) U.S. Ambassador to the United Kingdom John G. Winant; President Franklin D. Roosevelt; Secretary of State Edward R. Stettinius, Jr.; Special Assistant to the President Harry L. Hopkins; (standing, from right) Assistant to the Secretary of State Charles E. Bohlen; State Department Director of European Affairs H. Freeman Matthews; and others.

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On the deck of a U.S. warship anchored at Cairo as President Roosevelt conferred with the monarchs of three countries on his homeward journey from the Big Three conference at Yalta, Crimea, are John Winant (left), U.S. Ambassador to Great Britain; Mrs. Anna Roosevelt Boettiger, President Roosevelt's daughter, and Harry Hopkins. 02/14/1945. NARA Photo.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill (center) gestures to residents of Bristol, which came under heavy bombing by Germany. "We shall let them have it back," Churchill told the bombing victims. Behind Churchill is American Ambassador John G. Winant. April 22, 1941, Bristol, Gloucestershire, England, UK.

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Home to John Gilbert Winant, US ambassador to the Court of St James at one time during the second world war: Two Aldford Street W1 mews house (G A Codd, assistant to Balfour & Turner, completed 1898), Mayfair, London. Winant also had a small apartment at Grosvenor Square where he stayed, instead of the Ambassador official residence, an opulent mansion situated outside of London..

As Governor of New Hampshire, John G. Winant signed legislation in the Executive Chambers, The State House, Concord, New Hampshire.

John G. Winant for Governor campaign button, Whitehead and Hoag, Co., Newark, N.J. circa 1924

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Scrapbook

March 4, 2010 Governor's Reception for Author Lynne Olson, New Hampshire State House

Top: New Hampshire Secretary of State William M. Gardner, Author Lynne Olson, and Rivington Winant, son of the late New Hampshire Governor and U.S. Ambassador to London, John Gilbert Winant. Bottom, Dean Dexter and daughter Abigail Dexter with Lynne Olson and Rivington Winant.

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Author Lynne Olson photographs Winant's grave, St. Paul's School Cemetery, Concord, N.H., August 28, 2008 -- Dean Dexter photo

New Hampshire Secretary of State Bill Gardner and Author Lynne Olson at John Winant grave, St. Paul's School Cemetery, Concord, N.H., August 25, 2008 -- Dean Dexter photo

Author Lynne Olson and Dean Dexter, at John G. Winant gravesite, Concord, New Hampshire, August 25, 2008 -- William M. Gardner photo

Lynn Olson, author of Citizens of London, The Americans Who Stood with Britain in its Darkens, Finest House at gravesite of the late U.S. Ambassador to London, John Gilbert Winant, Concord, N.H. August 25, 2009 -- Dean Dexter photo

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Winant's Book Review in Time -- November, 1947
Why Great Men Kill Themselves -- Hal Boyle, December 1947
Harvard Magazine, December 2000
Sir Walter Crocker, secretary to Winant in Geneva
Open Plaques
Obituary of John Gilbert Winant, Jr., The New York Times
The Winant Boomlet -- Time Magazine, December, 1933

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