Member Biography

William Lattimore 

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Sessions Office Position District Party
1805-1806       9 Constitutionalist (Quid)
1806-1807       9 Constitutionalist (Quid)
1807-1808       9 Constitutionalist (Quid)
1808-1809       9 Constitutionalist (Quid)

Biography

1763 - 11/11/1833


General William Lattimore (Constitutionalists9 (Quid)) Luzerne, Northampton and Wayne Counties 1805-1808 (Constitutionalists9 (Quid)) Northampton and Wayne Counties 1808-1809

Early Life:

General William Lattimore, born 1763, Northampton County, Province of Pennsylvania, British Colonial America; son of Robert and Nancy King Lattimore; private, Captain David Pamkas Company, Colonel Flowers Regiment, Northampton County, Pennsylvania Militia, American Revolutionary War; unsuccessful campaigns, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 1799, 1800; elected, Democratic-Republican, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, 1802-1805; elected, Constitutionalists (Quid), Pennsylvania State Senate, 1805-1809; unsuccessful reelection, 1809; unsuccessful campaigns, Pennsylvania United States House of Representatives, Pennsylvania 1806, 1810, 1812; Prothonotary of Northampton County, 1821; married, Mary Walker, children, John, William, Robert, James, Samuel, Ralston Monroe, Christiana, M.A., Nancy; died, November 11, 1833 (aged 69–70), Northampton County, Pennsylvania; interment, Horner's Cemetery, Northampton, Northampton County, Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania Politics: 

Unsuccessful campaigns, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, Northampton and Wayne Counties, 1799, 1800. 

Elected, Democratic-Republican, Pennsylvania State House of Representatives, Northampton and Wayne Counties, 1802-1805. 

Elected, Constitutionalists (Quid), Pennsylvania State Senate, 9th district, Luzerne, Northampton and Wayne Counties 1805-1808, Constitutionalists (Quid), Pennsylvania State Senate, 9th district, Northampton and Wayne Counties, 1808-1809; unsuccessful reelection, 1809.

Unsuccessful campaigns, Pennsylvania United States House of Representatives, Pennsylvania 2nd district, 1806, 1810; Pennsylvania United States House of Representatives, Pennsylvania 6th district, 1812.

Prothonotary of Northampton County, 1821.

Cited:

Cox, Harold. "Senate Members "L""Wilkes University Election Statistics ProjectWilkes University.

A New Nation Votes (tufts.edu)

Gen William “General” Lattimore (1763-1833) - Find a Grave Memorial