Commissioner Lattimore
Character Key Number:
3131
Display Name:
Commissioner Lattimore
Sort Name:
Lattimore, Commissioner William
Ever Present in Yoknapatawpha?:
No
Biography:
A physician by training, William Lattimore was politically active during the years in which the Mississippi Territory became the State of Mississippi. In 1821, along with James Patton and Thomas Hinds, he was one of the "three Commissioners" referred to in Requiem for a Nun who chose the site for the new state capital (79).