Delbert Leroy Latta

(father of Robert E. Latta ) a Representative from Ohio; born in Weston, Wood County, Ohio, March 5, 1920; attended the public schools in North Baltimore, Ohio; graduated from McComb (Ohio) High School in 1938; attended Findley College, 1938-1940; Ohio Northern University, LL.B., 1943, and from the same university, A.B., 1945; served in the Ohio National Guard and the United States Army, Thirty-seventh Division, 1938-1941, and in the United States Marine Corps Reserve in 1942 and 1943; was admitted to the bar and commenced the practice of law in Bowling Green, Ohio, in 1944; member of the State senate 1953-1958; delegate, Republican National Convention, 1968; elected as a Republican to the Eighty-sixth and to the fourteen succeeding Congresses (January 3, 1959-January 3, 1989); was not a candidate for renomination in 1988 to the One Hundred First Congress; is a resident of Bowling Green, Ohio. When he retired, he was the dean of the Ohio congressional delegation. His son was elected to the House to fill an open seat in 2007. In addition to his son, Mr. Latta is survived by his wife, Rose Mary; a daughter, Rose Ellen Jackson; five grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.