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Latham, Milton Scott

banker, lawyer, congressman, governor, United States senator, was born May 23, 1827, in Columbus, Ohio. He removed to California in 1850, and was soon afterwards chosen district attorney for the counties of Sacramento and El Dorado, which office he held in 1851. In 1852 he was elected a representative from California to the thirty-seventh congress. Having been elected governor of California, three days after his inauguration, in January, 1860, he was elected a senator in congress from California for six years. He died March 4, 1882, in New York city.