Of majestic build, rubicund and slash-mouthed, he resembled the late General Winfield Scott, who was said to be the most imposing general of his century, if not of all centuries.

This refusal to accept any renunciation of allegiance to the Crown led to conflict with the United States over impressment, and then led to further conflicts even during the War of 1812, when thirteen Irish American prisoners of war were executed as traitors after the Battle of Queenston Heights ; Winfield Scott urged American reprisal, but none was carried out.

A treaty was signed in 1832 by Sauk Indian tribe chief Keokuk and United States Army General Winfield Scott to end the Black Hawk War.

During one game in the 1980s, Hamilton Tiger-Cats wide receiver Earl Winfield was unable to field a punt properly ; in frustration, he kicked the ball out of bounds.

Winfield was also drafted by the Minnesota Vikings of the National Football League, the Atlanta Hawks of the National Basketball Association and the Utah Stars of the American Basketball Association.

Only Winfield and fellow outfielder George Hendrick cracked the 20-homer barrier, and the pitching staff was filled with a group of unknowns and youngsters, few of whom would enjoy much success at the major league level.

Winfield and Fingers represented the team at the game, but conspicuously absent was starting pitcher Gaylord Perry, who joined the Padres after spending three years with the Texas Rangers.

Winfield was the lone bright spot, leading the National League with 118 RBIs.

Grant's fame increased throughout the country, and he was promoted to Lieutenant General, a position that had previously been given to George Washington and given to Winfield Scott as a brevet promotion.

The idea of the special draft was conceived by Hall of Famer Dave Winfield.

Bayard was a candidate for President of the United States in 1876, ran second to Winfield Scott Hancock for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1880, and second to Grover Cleveland in 1884.

* Winfield Scott Stratton Post Office in Colorado Springs ; named by an act of Congress in 1995 ; Stratton had sold the land the post office was built on to the federal government at a fraction of its value with the understanding that it would be used for the post office.

He was a delegate to the 1848 Whig National Convention which nominated General Zachary Taylor for the presidency and again to the 1852 Whig National Convention which nominated General Winfield Scott.

The first series that Stratemeyer created was the Rover Boys, published under the pseudonym Arthur M. Winfield.

In 1837, General Winfield Scott was hired to gather all the Native Americans in the region and detain them in improvised stockades before transporting them into Oklahoma Territory.

Another influential witness for the defense was Deputy District Attorney Winfield Scott Williams.

Nevertheless, the treaty, passed by Congress by a single vote, and signed into law by President Andrew Jackson, was imposed by his successor President Martin Van Buren who allowed Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina, and Alabama an armed force of 7, 000 made up of militia, regular army, and volunteers under General Winfield Scott to round up about 13, 000 Cherokees into concentration camps at the U. S. Indian Agency near Cleveland, Tennessee before being sent to the West.

Michael Landon made his TV-movie directorial debut in the 1974 movie It ’ s Good to Be Alive, in which Campanella was portrayed by Paul Winfield.

Scott County was formed by an act of the General Assembly on November 24, 1814 from parts of Washington, Lee, and Russell Counties and was named for Virginia born General Winfield Scott.

* Winfield Scott, United States Army General, diplomat, and presidential candidate, was born nearby in Dinwiddie County and spent much time in Petersburg in his youth.

It was created in 1849 from portions of Anderson, Campbell, Fentress, and Morgan counties and named for General Winfield Scott.

It was organized in 1853 and named in honor of General Winfield Scott.

The county was named after General Winfield Scott.

Officially opened for settlement July 15, 1870, there was a lengthy and bitter disagreement between the towns of Winfield and Cresswell ( the town now named Arkansas City ) over the possession of the county seat of government.

The couple had five sons and one daughter: Abraham ( 1807 – 1873 ) a graduate of West Point and career military officer ; John ( 1810 – 1866 ), graduate of Yale and Attorney General of New York ; Martin, Jr. ( 1812 – 1855 ), secretary to his father and editor of his father's papers until a premature death from tuberculosis ; Winfield Scott ( born and died in 1814 ); and Smith Thompson ( 1817 – 1876 ), an editor and special assistant to his father while president.

* April 8 – Franklin Winfield Woolworth, American businessman ( born 1852 )

David Mark Winfield ( born October 3, 1951 ) is an American former Major League Baseball outfielder.

* Darrell Winfield is an actor who played the Marlboro man and was born in Hanford.

* The Texas oil industrialist and former Oklahoma state legislator Oliver Winfield Killam was born in Elsberry in 1874.

* Jess Winfield ( born 1961 ), American writer

Winfield was born in Los Angeles, California to Lois Beatrice Edwards, a union organizer in the garment industry.

Winfield Scott Hancock and his identical twin brother Hilary Baker Hancock were born on February 14, 1824, in Montgomery Square, Pennsylvania, a hamlet just northwest of Philadelphia in present-day Montgomery Township.

Julius Winfield Erving II ( born February 22, 1950 ), commonly known by the nickname Dr. J, is a retired American basketball player who helped launch a modern style of play that emphasizes leaping and play above the rim.

Richard Dale was born in Portsmouth parish, Norfolk County, Virginia, the eldest son of Winfield Dale, shipwright and merchant, and Ann Sutherland.

Bart Winfield Sibrel ( born 1964 ) is a Nashville, Tennessee-based filmmaker who claims that the six Apollo Moon landings between 1969 and 1972 were hoaxes.

Bryant Winfield Culberson Dunn ( born July 1, 1927 ) was the 43rd Governor of Tennessee, from 1971 to 1975.

Harrison was born in Grayling, Michigan, to Winfield Sprague Harrison, a county agricultural agent, and Norma Olivia ( Wahlgren ) Harrison, both avid readers.

He was born at Winfield House in London, restored by his mother and named for her grandfather Frank Winfield Woolworth.

Kent Douglas Graham ( born November 1, 1968, in Winfield, Illinois ) is a former professional American football quarterback in the National Football League.

* Brigadier-General Winfield Scott Featherston, born Tennessee 1821, died Holly Springs, Mississippi 1891

Christopher Rejean Brown ( born April 17, 1981, in Winfield, Illinois ) is an American football running back who is currently a free agent.

He was born on November 15, 1877, in St. Albans, Vermont, United States, the second child of Winfield Scott Bailey and Harriet Sarah Goodhue ( a girl, Ellen was born in 1876 ).

Hutton's only child, Lance Reventlow, was born in Winfield House.

Darrell H. Winfield, was a rancher and model ( best known as " The Marlboro Man " in television commercials and magazine advertisements for Marlboro cigarettes ), was born in Oklahoma on July 30, 1929.