Tom Latham

Thomas " Tom" Latham (* July 14, 1948 in Hampton, Franklin County, Iowa) is an American politician. Since 1995 he represents the state of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Tom Latham attended until 1966, the Cal Community College in Latimer and then to 1967 Wartburg College in Waverly (Iowa). Then he studied until 1970 at the Iowa State University in Ames. Then he led with his brothers a company that sales of seed.

Politically, Latham joined the Republican Party. In 1992 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Houston, on the U.S. President George Bush was nominated for a second term. Later, Bush lost then in the actual election against Bill Clinton. 1994 Latham was in the fifth electoral district of Iowa in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he stepped on 3 January 1995, the successor of Fred Grandy. After several re- elections he could represent this district until January 3, 2003 at the Congress. Of the 2002 elections he ran on in the fourth district of Iowa, until after the census in 2010 his constituency was dissolved. In the 2012 election so he went to the third electoral district of Iowa against the Democratic incumbent Leonard Boswell and won, so he represents this district in Congress since January 3, 2013. Latham is a member of the Budget Committee and in two of its subcommittees and is considered a moderate Republican who works with Democratic colleagues. He was talking for the succession of Democratic U.S. Senator Tom Harkin, but ended in February 2013 with the speculation of cancellation.

He is married to Kathy Latham and private lives in Ames.