Upon graduation at Wofford College, South Carolina, Mr. Latimer entered the law department of the historical old University of Virginia, at Charlottesville, in which institution he was graduated as a member of the class of 1903 and from which he received his degree of Bachelor of Laws.

In the following year he established his residence in Atlanta, where he has since continued in the successful practice of his profession and where his precedence in his chosen vocation represents the result of ability and close application. Mr. Latimer has appeared in many important litigations in the various courts of the Capital City of Georgia and is known not only as a resourceful advocate at the bar but also as a counselor admirably fortified in the science of jurisprudence.

Holding inviolable his faith in the basic principles of the Democratic Party, Mr. Latimer has shown a lively interest in political affairs has been influential in the councils of his party in Georgia but has never manifested any predilection for official preferment of political order.

He is affiliated with the various York Rite bodies of the Masonic fraternity, including an Atlanta commandery of the Knights Templar, and holds membership also in the adjunct organization, the Ancient Arabic Order of the Nobles of the Mystic Shrine. He is identified with the Capital City Club, the Piedmont Driving Club and other local organizations of social order, and holds membership in the Fulton County Bar Association and the Georgia State Bar Association.