Asbury Latimer 5042415 222842517 2008-07-01T11:23:51Z Cydebot 1215485 Robot - Moving category Deaths of peritonitis to Deaths from peritonitis per [[WP:CFD|CFD]] at [[Wikipedia:Categories for discussion/Log/2008 June 21]]. '''Asbury Churchwell Latimer''' ([[July 31]], [[1851]] - [[February 20]], [[1908]]) was a [[United States Representative]] and [[United States Senate|Senator]] from [[South Carolina]]. Born near [[Lowndesville, South Carolina]], he attended the common schools, engaged in agricultural pursuits, and in 1880 moved to [[Belton, South Carolina]] and devoted his time to farming. Latimer was elected as a [[USDemocrat|Democrat]] to the Fifty-third and to the four succeeding Congresses ([[March 4]], [[1893]]-[[March 3]], [[1903]]). He did not seek renomination in 1902, having become a candidate for US Senator. He was elected to the U.S. Senate and served from [[March 4]], [[1903]], until his death in 1908. During his service in the Senate, he was appointed in 1907 a member of the [[Dillingham Commission|United States Immigration Commission]]. He died in of [[peritonitis]] in [[Washington, D.C.]] in 1908; interment was in Belton Cemetery, [[Belton, South Carolina]]. ==References== *{{CongBio|L000114}} {{start box}} {{USRepSuccessionBox | state=South Carolina | district=3 | before= [[George Johnstone (politician)|George Johnstone]] | after= [[Wyatt Aiken]] | years=[[1893]] –[[1903]]}} {{U.S. Senator box |state=South Carolina |class=3 |before=[[John L. McLaurin]] |after=[[Frank B. Gary]] |alongside=[[Benjamin Tillman|Benjamin R. Tillman]] |years=1903–1908}} {{end box}} {{USSenSC}} [[Category:1851 births|Latimer, Asbury]] [[Category:1908 deaths|Latimer, Asbury]] [[Category:Members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina|Latimer, Asbury]] [[Category:United States Senators from South Carolina|Latimer, Asbury]] [[Category:Deaths from peritonitis|Latimer, Asbury]]