George R. Latham

George Robert Latham ( born March 9, 1832 in Haymarket, Prince William County, Virginia; † December 16, 1917 in Buckhannon, West Virginia ) was an American politician. Between 1865 and 1867 he represented the second electoral district of the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Latham attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1859 admitted to the bar he began in Grafton in present-day West Virginia, which at that time was still part of Virginia to practice in his new profession. In 1861 he was a delegate at a conference in Wheeling, on the course for the cleavage of the later state of West Virginia were asked of Virginia. During the Civil War Latham was an officer in the Union Army. He rose to the colonel of a volunteer infantry unit.

In the congressional elections of 1864 he was a candidate of the National Union party in the second district of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on March 4, 1865, the successor of William Gay Brown. Since he resigned in 1866 to run again, he was able to complete up to March 3, 1867, only one term in Congress, which was overshadowed by the quarrels between the radical Republicans and President Andrew Johnson.

Between 1867 and 1870, Latham was American consul in Melbourne ( Australia). From 1875 to 1877 he served as a school board in Upshur County; He also served as Supervisor of Census, the statistical office in the country's first statistical District of West Virginia. Latham employed in the years after 1870 also in agricultural matters. Politically, he is no more have appeared. He died in December 1917 in Buckhannon and was also buried there.