Albert Hamilton Latimer (May 25, c. 1800 – January 27, 1877) was a justice of the Texas Supreme Court from September 1867 to November 1869.
[1] Learning of General Santa Anna's attack on the Alamo, Latimer turned for his home.
[1] Latimer, too old to fight during the American Civil War, "was vocal in his opposition to Texas' secession from the Union".
[2] He joined the Republican Party, and in October 1865 he was appointed state comptroller, during Reconstruction,[2] by Provisional Governor Andrew Jackson Hamilton.
[1] Latimer then served stints as a federal tax commissioner overseeing revenue collection for North Texas, and supervisor of voter registration for North Texas.