George Stephen Latimer (born November 22, 1953) is an American politician currently serving as the U.S. representative for New York's 16th Congressional District.

He asked his father for a loan to get his Master's Degree in Public Administration (MPA) from New York University's Wagner School.

[6] He later worked for two decades as a marketing executive in the hospitality industry for major organizations, including subsidiaries of Nestlé and ITT.

[7] Latimer first ran for public office in 1987; he won a seat on the Rye City Council, finishing first in a field of 6 major party candidates.

[8] Latimer was re-elected in 1993, 1995, and 1997;[9] in January 1998, Democrats won a majority of seats in the County Board for the first time in 90 years.

[11] After winning re-election to the County Legislature in 2003, Latimer sought and won a seat in the New York State Assembly in 2004, serving until 2012.

[18] Latimer was also criticized for having "a car-registration suspension on his record,"[19] and for missing state budget votes in April 2017 while vacationing in the [United Kingdom] with a woman other than his wife.

[27] In December 2023, Latimer announced that he was running for the United States House of Representatives in 2024, challenging incumbent Jamaal Bowman in the June 25 primary for the Democratic nomination in New York's 16th congressional district.

The collision occurred when Latimer failed to yield at an intersection, causing the driver of the other car "severe and permanent injury."

At the time of the crash, Latimer was driving an aide's vehicle; his own car's registration had been suspended because of a high number of unpaid parking tickets.