Hollis Latham Explained

Hollis Latham
Birth Date:12 March 1812
Birth Place:Northfield, Vermont
Death Place:Elkhorn, Wisconsin
Office:Member of the Wisconsin State Assembly
Term Start:1862
Term End:1862
Predecessor:Wyman Spooner
Successor:Samuel Pratt
Office2:Member of the Second Wisconsin Constitutional Convention
Term Start2:1847
Term End2:1848
Successor2:incumbent
Party:Democrat

Hollis Latham (March 12, 1812  - February 22, 1886) was a Wisconsin farmer and politician.

Born in Northfield, Vermont, where he went to school, Latham moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin Territory, in 1836. In 1837, he moved to the town of Spring Prairie, Wisconsin Territory and then settled on February 27, 1837, in Elkhorn where he was a farmer; he would remain there for the rest of his life. He married Lemira Bradley in April 1838.

He served as the town justice of the peace, as county clerk, treasurer and superintendent of the poor, and as a trustee of the Wisconsin School for the Deaf. Latham served in the second Wisconsin Constitutional Convention of 1847–1848, and was one of the seven-member "Committee on Executive, Legislative and Administrative Provisions" assigned to create new provisions for the second proposed constitution.[1] [2]

In 1852, he was captain of the town's unit of the state militia.[3] As of 1854, he was one of the secretaries of the Walworth County Agricultural Society.,[4] a title he would hold for some time, although by 1880 he would be its treasurer[5]

Latham was elected a member of the Wisconsin State Assembly for 1862, where he (a Democrat) replaced Republican Wyman Spooner.[6] [7] He was succeeded for the 1863 session by Republican Samuel Pratt. In 1869 Latham was the Democratic nominee for Wisconsin's 12th State Senate district, losing with 1129 votes to 2235 for the same Samuel Pratt.[8] In 1870, he was the nominee for the 2nd Walworth County Assembly district (the Towns of Linn, Geneva, Elkhorn, La Fayette, Bloomfield, Lyons and Spring Prairie), losing with 620 votes to 990 for Republican Amzy Merriam.[9] In 1879 he ran as both the Democratic and Greenback Party nominee for what was now Walworth's renumbered 1st Assembly district, gaining 710 votes to 941 for Republican Ely Bruce Dewing.[10]

Lemira L. Latham died July 25, 1885.[11] Hollis died February 22, 1886, after several weeks' illness.[12]

Notes and References

  1. H. A. Tenney and David Atwood. Memorial Record of the Fathers of Wisconsin Containing Sketches of the Lives and Careers of the Members of the Constitutional Conventions of 1846 and 1847-8. Madison: David Atwood, 1880, pp. 238-239.
  2. Book: Albert Clayton Beckwith . History of Walworth County Wisconsin, vol. 1 . Indianapolis . B. F. Bowen . 1912 . 534–535 . 2015-06-22.
  3. Book: Utley . William . Annual report of the adjutant-general of the Wisconsin militia . 1853 . Brown & Carpenter, Printers . Madison . 17 . 28 July 2021.
  4. Walworth Co. Agricultural Society . Wisconsin and Iowa Farmer, and Northwestern Cultivator . May 1854 . VI . 5 . 99 . 28 July 2021 . Mark Miller and S. P. Lathrop . Janesville, Wisconsin . English.
  5. Book: Wisconsin State Agricultural Society . Transactions of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society, including proceedings of the state agricultural convention, held in February, 1881, with practical and useful papers . Wisconsin State Agricultural Society . Madison . 429 . List of officers of agricultural societies for 1880, with their P.O. address, and place and date of holding fair in 1879.
  6. Web site: Members of the Wisconsin Legislature 1848 – 1999 . State of Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau . 74 . 2015-06-22 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20150404052836/http://legis.wisconsin.gov/lrb/pubs/ib/99ib1.pdf . 2015-04-04 .
  7. John H. Warren & John S. Dean (eds.). The Legislative Manual of the State of Wisconsin. Madison: Smith & Cullaton, 1862, p. 84.
  8. Book: The legislative manual of the state of Wisconsin; comprising Jefferson's manual, rules, forms and laws, for the regulation of business; also, lists and tables for reference. Ninth Annual Edition . 1870 . Atwood and Rublee, State Printers, Journal Block . Madison . 352 . 9th . English . Wisconsin state government and state institutions.
  9. Book: Compiled by the Secretary of State for the year 1871 . The legislative manual of the state of Wisconsin; comprising Jefferson's manual, rules, forms and laws for the regulation of business; also, lists and tables for reference Tenth Annual Edition . 1871 . Atwood and Culver, State Printers, Journal Block . Madison . 385 . 10th . 28 July 2021 . English . Official directory.
  10. Book: Warner . Hans B. . The Blue Book of the state of Wisconsin, for 1879. Containing the constitutions of the United States and of the state; Jefferson's manual; rules and orders of the senate and assembly, and annals of the legislature; also, statistical tables and history of state institutions Eighteenth Annual Edition . 1879 . David Atwood, State Printer . Madison . 506 . 18th . 28 July 2021 . Biographical sketches.
  11. News: Lemira Latham death notice . 28 July 2021 . Lake Geneva Herald . XIV. 17 . The Herald . August 1, 1885 . Lake Geneva, Wisconsin . English. 5 . via Newspapers.com
  12. News: Obituary. Hon. Hollis Latham . 28 July 2021 . Lake Geneva Herald . The Herald . February 26, 1886 . Lake Geneva, Wisconsin . 4 . English. via Newspapers.com

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