Louis Charles Latham (September 11, 1840, Plymouth, North Carolina – October 16, 1895

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) was a member of the United States House of Representatives representing North Carolina.

Biography

Latham graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1859 and later attended the

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. He entered the

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in 1861 where he was commissioned captain and afterward major of the First Regiment of North Carolina State troops, and served throughout the American Civil War. Following the war he resumed the study of law, was admitted to the bar in 1868 and commenced practice in Plymouth, N.C. He was elected member of the North Carolina House of Commons in 1864 and to the

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in 1870. He was elected as a

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to the Forty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1881 – March 3, 1883); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1882; elected to the Fiftieth Congress (March 4, 1887 – March 3, 1889); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1888 to the Fifty-first United States Congress. He resumed the practice of law in

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and died at Johns Hopkins University Hospital in

on October 16, 1895. He was interred in Greenville's City Cemetery.

References

* *Jerome Dowd
Sketches of Prominent Living North Carolinians
1888, page 53 *Thomas William Herringshaw
Herringshaw's Encyclopedia of American Biography of the Nineteenth Century
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