William Lattimore

William Lattimore ( born February 9, 1774 Norfolk, Virginia; † April 3, 1843 in Natchez, Mississippi ) was an American politician. Between 1803 and 1807, and 1813-1817 he represented the Mississippi Territory as a delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

William Lattimore attended the common schools and then studied medicine. Then he moved to Natchez in the later Mississippi Territory, where he worked as a doctor. Although Lattimore belonged to no political party, but still took active part in the development of a functioning government in the newly created territory.

In 1802 he was elected as a delegate in the U.S. House of Representatives, where he followed on March 4, 1803 Thomas Green. After a re-election in 1804 he could from his position in Congress to exert March 3, 1807, before he was replaced by George Poindexter. In the years 1812 and 1814 he was again elected to Congress. There he was able to complete two other legislative periods between 4 March 1813 to 3 March 1817. He was also the last delegates from its territory. After the founding of the state of Mississippi, the new state sent regular Congressman.

In 1817, Lattimore was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of Mississippi. He then became a medical expert ( Censor of the Medical Profession ) from Mississippi and a member of a commission to determine the new capital of the state.