Louis C. Latham

Louis Charles Latham (September 11, 1840, Plymouth, North Carolina - October 16, 1895) was a member of the United States House of Representatives representing North Carolina. Latham graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1859 and later attended the Harvard Law School. He entered the Confederate Army 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; served in the State senate in 1870; was elected as a Democrat 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 Greenville, N.C. and died at Johns Hopkins University Hospital on October 16, 1895. He was interred in the City Cemetery, Greenville, N.C.