Education
Born near Haymarket, Virginia, Latham attended common schools as a child, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1859, commencing practice in Grafton, Virginia (now West Virginia).
United States representative lawyer politician
Born near Haymarket, Virginia, Latham attended common schools as a child, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1859, commencing practice in Grafton, Virginia (now West Virginia).
This article is about the Virginia politician and lawyer George Robert Latham (March 9, 1832 – December 16, 1917) was a nineteenth-century politician and lawyer from Virginia and West Virginia and colonel of the 2nd West Virginia Volunteer Infantry during the Civil War. He was a delegate to the Wheeling Convention in 1861 and served in the Union Army as captain of Company Bachelor of the 2nd West Virginia Volunteer Infantry Regiment during the Civil War.
Latham was promoted to colonel of his regiment before being elected an Unconditional Unionist to the United States House of Representatives in 1864, serving from 1865 to 1867.
Afterwards, he was appointed consul at Melbourne, Australia in 1867, serving until 1870, was school superintendent of Upshur County, West Virginia from 1875 to 1877 and supervisor of census for the first census division of West Virginia. Latham engaged in agricultural pursuits until his death in Buckhannon, West Virginia on December 16, 1917.
He was interred in Heavner Cemetery in Buckhannon.