Introduction The Congressional Papers of Delbert Leroy Latta, Republican Congressman from the Ohio Fifth District, consists of over 255 linear feet of correspondence, subject and committee files, clippings, press releases, and publications covering Latta's political career from 1959 through 1989, including the period of the Vietnamese Conflict and Watergate. The collection was donated to the Center for Archival Collections through the cooperation of Delbert Latta between August and December 1988. No restrictions exist on the use of this collection.
Duplication is permitted for the purposes of preservation and research.
The preliminary processing and inventory to the collection was prepared by Renate W. Prescott, a graduate student intern, with the final register completed by Marilyn Levinson, Curator of Manuscripts in 1998. Attending public school in North Baltimore, he graduated in 1938 from High School in McComb, Ohio. He attended Findlay College from 1938 to 1940, and got his LL.B degree in 1943 and an A.B. in 1945, both from Ohio Northern University in Ada. During the period prior to World War II, from 1938 to 1941, Latta served in the Ohio National Guard and the United States Army, Thirty-Seventh Division, and was in the United States Marine Corps Reserve in 1942 and 1943. He began his legal career with the practice of law in Bowling Green, Ohio, having been admitted to the bar in 1944.