James Latimer Price
{{Short description|American judge}}
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|office=Ohio Supreme Court Associate Justice
|term_start=February 9, 1902
|term_end=March 11, 1912
|preceded=Thaddeus A. Minshall
|succeeded=Joseph W. O'Hara
|party=Republican
|birth_date={{birth date|1840|3|27}}
|birth_place=Carroll County, Ohio
|death_date={{death date and age|1912|3|11|1840|3|27}}
|death_place=Martinsville, Indiana
|restingplace=Lima, Ohio
|spouse=Martha Guiney
Elizabeth Marshall
|children=four
}}
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James Latimer Price (March 27, 1840 – March 11, 1912) was a Republican politician in the U.S. State of Ohio who was a judge on the Ohio Supreme Court from 1902 to 1912.
Biography
James Latimer Price was born near the village of New Hagerstown, Orange Township, Carroll County, Ohio on March 27, 1840. He lived on a farm and attended public schools. He taught one term in Harrison County near Adena, and a term at New Hagerstown. He then studied law at the office of Eckley and Shober in Carrollton, Ohio.
Price was admitted to the bar at Cadiz, and opened an office in Carrollton, where he practiced until the spring of 1865. He was elected and served one term as Prosecuting Attorney of Carroll County, and then moved to Van Wert, where he formed a partnership with Judge I.D. Clark which lasted about two years. In 1868, he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Van Wert County and served three terms. He acquired a large practice, and decided to remove to the thriving city of Lima in 1883.
In 1894, the Republicans nominated Price for Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit. He won in a heavily Democratic district, and served six years. In 1901, he was elected to the Ohio Supreme Court, and was seated February 9, 1902. He was re-elected in 1908.{{cite book |title=Ohio election statistics |year=1905 |last=Ohio Secretary of State |author-link=Ohio Secretary of State |url=https://archive.org/details/ohioelectionsta01statgoog }} page 420 of pdf file He served until March 11, 1912.[http://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/SCO/formerjustices/default.asp Justices of the Supreme Court of Ohio]. State of Ohio He died on that date in Martinsville, Indiana at a sanitarium where he went to recover from illness. His funeral and burial were at Lima.[http://www.supremecourt.ohio.gov/SCO/formerjustices/bios/price.asp The Supreme Court of Ohio and The Ohio Judicial System – James Latimer Price]
Price married Martha Guiney on January 1, 1862, and had two children. Martha and one child died in August 1866. He married Elizabeth Marshall on March 8, 1868. Her two children died in infancy.
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Category:People from Carroll County, Ohio
Category:Politicians from Lima, Ohio
Category:People from Van Wert, Ohio
Category:Justices of the Supreme Court of Ohio
Category:County district attorneys in Ohio