Dana Latham | |
Office: | 33rd Commissioner of Internal Revenue |
President: | Dwight D. Eisenhower |
Term Start: | November 5, 1958 |
Term End: | January 20, 1961 |
Predecessor: | Russell C. Harrington |
Successor: | Mortimer Caplin |
Birth Date: | 7 July 1898 |
Birth Place: | Galesburg, Illinois, U.S. |
Death Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Party: | Republican |
Education: | Ohio Wesleyan University (BA) Harvard University (LLB) |
Dana Latham (July 7, 1898 – February 6, 1974) was an American attorney who served as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue from 1958 to 1961.[1] [2] He and Paul Watkins founded Latham & Watkins. On March 22, 1959, Latham appeared on the television show What's My Line?
He died of a heart attack on February 6, 1974, in Los Angeles, California at age 75.[3]