Thomas Paul Latham (R)
About The Candidate
- Office Sought: Representative, Iowa (4)
- Birth Date: July 14, 1948
- Occupation: Businessman
- Religion: Lutheran
- Web site: http://www.tomlatham.house.gov/
Education
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Wartburg College, Attended
Tom Latham was born in Hampton, Iowa, and resides in Alexander. He attended Wartburg College in 1967 and Iowa State University in 1970. He worked in banking and insurance in Colorado from 1970 to 1974, before returning to Iowa to take an insurance job.
In 1976, he launched the Latham Seed Company in Alexander, where he was a vice president and co-owner selling seed corn to farmers. He was first elected to the U.S. House in 1994.
Latham and his wife, Kathy, have three children.
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