Edward Winslow (18 October 1595 – 8 May 1655) was Governor of Plymouth Colony from 1633 to 1634 (succeeding William Bradford and preceding Thomas Prence), from 1636 to 1637 (interrupting Bradford's terms), and from 1639 to 1644 (interrupting Bradford's terms).
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Edward Winslow was born in Droitwich, Worcestershire, England in 1595, and he joined the Puritan Separatists in fleeing to Leiden, Holland before taking part in the Mayflower voyage to the New World in 1620. Winsloww established a friendship with Pokanoket sachem Massasoit, and soon became the Plymouth Colony's ambassador to the Native Americans. He served as Governor of Plymouth Colony from 1633 to 1634, from 1636 to 1637, and from 1639 to 1644, and Winslow later left Plymouth to advocate for the colony's interests abroad, as well as to assist Oliver Cromwell during the English Civil War. In 1654, he was commissier of an English naval expedition against the Spanish in the Caribbean, and he died of yellow fever in Jamaica in 1655 after his victory.