# John Wingate — John Brown’s Body character guide

> John Wingate in John Brown’s Body by Stephen Vincent Benét.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** honest John, the Wingate

**First appearance:** 0005-book-i

## Who they are

The patriarch of the Wingate family, a Southern planter.

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