<Tr> <Th> Profession </Th> <Td> Politician and governor </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Signature </Th> <Td> </Td> </Tr> <P> Edward Winslow (18 October 1595--8 May 1655) was a Separatist who traveled on the Mayflower in 1620 . He was one of several senior leaders on the ship and also later at Plymouth Colony . Both Edward Winslow and his brother, Gilbert Winslow signed the Mayflower Compact . In Plymouth he served in a number of governmental positions such as assistant governor, three times was governor and also was the colony's agent in London . In early 1621 he had been one of several key leaders on whom Governor Bradford depended after the death of John Carver . He was the author of several important pamphlets, including Good Newes from New England and co-wrote with William Bradford the historic Mourt's Relation, which ends with an account of the First Thanksgiving and the abundance of the New World . In 1655 he died of fever while on a British naval expedition in the Caribbean against the Spanish . He is the only Plymouth colonist with an extant portrait, and this can be seen at Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth, Massachusetts . </P> <P> Edward Winslow was born in 1595 and would have been baptized a few days later . He was the eldest son of Edward Winslow (Sr .) of Droitwich, co . Worcestershire, by his wife Magdalene Oliver whom he married the previous year at St. Bride's Church, Fleet St., London . Edward Winslow, the father, according to family records, was born October 17, 1560 and was a descendant of the Winslow family of Kempsey, Worcestershire, a line that had existed in the county at least since 1500 . The Winslow estate in Kempsey was called Kersweil with a similar name of Careswell later being given to the gentrified Plymouth estate of Governor Josiah Winslow, son of Edward Winslow and Susanna . </P>

Who cowrote the mayflower compact and served as governor of plymouth colony