Latimer Whipple Ballou (March 1, 1812 – May 9, 1900) was a
U.S. Representative
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from
Rhode Island
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.
Biography
Latimer Whipple Ballou was born in
Cumberland, Rhode Island
Cumberland is the northeasternmost town in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States, first settled in 1635 and incorporated in 1746. The population was 36,405 at the 2020 census, making it the seventh-largest municipality and the largest t ...
on March 1, 1812.
He attended the public schools and the local academies in his native town.
He moved to
Cambridge, Massachusetts
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, in 1828 and learned the art of printing at the University Press.
He was instrumental in establishing the Cambridge Press in 1835 and continued in the printing business until 1842, when he moved to
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
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.
He engaged in banking in 1850.
He was active in the organization of the
Republican Party
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in 1856.
He served as delegate to the Republican National Convention at Philadelphia in 1872.
Ballou was elected as a
Republican
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to the
Forty-fourth,
Forty-fifth and
Forty-sixth Congresses (March 4, 1875 – March 3, 1881).
He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1880.
He engaged in his former business pursuits until his death in
Woonsocket, Rhode Island
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, May 9, 1900.
He was interred in Oak Hill Cemetery.
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1812 births
1900 deaths
Cumberland, Rhode Island
Republican Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Rhode Island
19th-century American legislators