Louis C. Latham Explained

Louis Charles Latham
Image Name:LouisCLatham.jpg
Birth Date:11 September 1840
Birth Place:Plymouth, North Carolina, US
Death Place:Baltimore, Maryland, US
Alma Mater:University of North Carolina
Occupation:Lawyer
State:North Carolina
District:1st
Term Start:March 4, 1881
Term End:March 3, 1883
Preceded:Jesse J. Yeates
Succeeded:Walter F. Pool
Term Start1:March 4, 1887
Term End1:March 3, 1889
Preceded1:Thomas G. Skinner
Succeeded1:Thomas G. Skinner
Office2:Member of the North Carolina House of Commons
Term2:1864
Office3:Member of the North Carolina Senate
Term3:1870
Party:Democratic
Serviceyears:1861–1865
Rank: Major
Unit: 1st North Carolina State Troops
Battles:American Civil War

Louis Charles Latham (September 11, 1840, Plymouth, North Carolina – October 16, 1895 Baltimore, Maryland) was a member of the United States House of Representatives representing North Carolina.

Biography

Latham graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1859 and later attended the Harvard Law School. He entered the Confederate Army in 1861 where he was commissioned captain and afterward major of the First Regiment of North Carolina State troops, and served throughout the American Civil War. Following the war he resumed the study of law, was admitted to the bar in 1868 and commenced practice in Plymouth, N.C.

He was elected member of the North Carolina House of Commons in 1864 and to the North Carolina State Senate in 1870. He was elected as a Democrat to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1882; elected to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1889); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first United States Congress.

He resumed the practice of law in Greenville, North Carolina and died at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in Baltimore, Maryland on October 16, 1895. He was interred in Greenville's City Cemetery.

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