Latimer, James Howe, 1913-2000.

James Howe Latimer was born in Nashville, Tennessee on 17 June 1913 to Hugh Darington and Ollie Mai Howe Latimer. His grandfather was James Howard Latimer (1843-1934), who served with Company I of the 49th Georgia Infantry during the Civil War. Latimer attended the Baylor School, a military preparatory school, in Chattanooga, Tennessee and graduated from the University of Chattanooga in 1935. From 1934 to 1937, Latimer worked as a reporter and copy editor for the Chattanooga Times. In 1937, he was hired as a reporter at the Richmond Times-Dispatch. He served two years in the United States Army during World War II and after the war resumed working at the Richmond Times-Dispatch, where his principal assignment involved covering Virginia politics, state government, the governor's office, legislative sessions, and state and national political conventions.

Latimer also served as the principal Virginia correspondent for Time, Life, and Fortune magazines and contributed articles to a variety of other publications such as the New York Herald Tribune, Baltimore Sun, Sports Illustrated, the Louisville Courier-Journal, the University of Virginia News Letter, and the Commonwealth Magazine. From the mid-1970's to the late 1980's, Latimer wrote and hosted "The Living History Makers," a series of programs aired on Central Virginia Educational Television in which former governors and other politicians of Virginia reminisced about Virginia politics. In 1979, Latimer received the George Mason Award from the Richmond chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for outstanding contributions to Virginia journalism, and was inducted into the Virginia Communications Hall of Fame in 1987. After his retirement in 1981, Latimer continued writing articles and columns on Virginia politics for the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Latimer married Anna Mary McCrary (1915-1993) in 1938 and had one son, James Darington Latimer, born in 1941. He died 7 April 2000 after a brief illness.