Louis C. Latham

Louis C. Latham

Louis Charles Latham (born September 11, 1840 in Plymouth , Washington County , North Carolina , †  October 16, 1895 in Baltimore , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1881 and 1883 and from 1887 to 1889 he represented the state of North Carolina in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Louis Latham first attended private schools and then studied until 1859 at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill . He then enrolled for a law degree at Harvard University , which he interrupted because of the outbreak of the civil war. During this war Louis Latham was a captain and later a major in the Confederation Army . After the war he continued his law studies and after his admission as a lawyer in 1868 he began to work in this profession in his native Plymouth.

Politically, Latham was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1864 he was elected to the North Carolina House of Representatives; in 1870 he was a member of the State Senate . In the congressional election of 1880 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , in the first constituency of North Carolina , where he succeeded Jesse Johnson Yeates on March 4, 1881 . Since he was not confirmed in 1882, he could initially only complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1883 .

As a result, Latham practiced as a lawyer again. In the elections of 1886 he was re-elected to Congress in the first district of his state, where he replaced Thomas Gregory Skinner on March 4, 1887 . Since he again missed re-election in 1888, he was only able to spend one term in the US House of Representatives this time. This ended on March 3, 1889. Louis Latham then worked in Greenville as a lawyer. He died on October 16, 1895 in the Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore.

Web links

• Louis C. Latham in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Louis C. Latham in the database of Find a Grave (English)