Earle O. Latham was born in Lowell, Massachusetts

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. He attended Boston University

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, Rutgers University

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 School of Banking and Columbia University

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 Graduate School of Management. During 46 years of employment, Latham rose from a messenger to serve as the First Vice President of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston

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. He was designated as a special emissary for the U.S. Department of State to the State of Ethiopia

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 in 1963-1964 to establish the National Bank of Ethiopia

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. Latham married Harriet Irene Morrison of Malden Massachusetts in 1936. They had two children; Patricia Ruth Latham (1938–1956) and O. Bradley Latham (1940- ). Earle Latham taught banking at Harvard University Extension School. He was an officer of the American Bankers Association

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 and served on many boards of charitable organizations, such as the United Way. In retirement, he moved to Boxford, Massachusetts

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, where he served for many years as the Chairman of the Boxford Conservation Commission.