Latimer Whipple Ballou

Latimer Whipple Ballou ( born March 1, 1812 in Cumberland, Rhode Iceland, † May 9, 1900 in Woonsocket, Rhode Iceland ) was an American politician. Between 1875 and 1881 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Rhode Iceland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Latimer Ballou attended the public schools of his home. In 1828 he moved to Cambridge, Massachusetts, where he completed a printing apprenticeship in the printing of Harvard University. Until 1842 Ballou remained in the newspaper business. In 1835 he founded the newspaper " Cambridge Press." 1842 moved Ballou Woonsocket in Rhode Iceland. There he was engaged in the banking business since 1850. In 1856 he was involved in the founding and development of the Republican Party in Rhode Iceland. In 1872 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, where U.S. President Ulysses S. Grant was nominated for a second term.

In the congressional elections of 1874 Ballou was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, where he became the successor of James M. Pendleton on March 4, 1875. After two re- election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1881 a total of three legislative periods. In 1880, Ballou gave up another candidacy. He returned to Woonsocket, where he resumed his previous activities again. There he is on May 9, 1900 and passed away.