James S. Latimer (1855 - 1941) came to the Choctaw Nation as a young man and worked for the Choctaw, Oklahoma and Gulf Railroad as a station agent and telegraph operator. At various times he worked at Wilburton, Red Oak and Fanshawe.

He served as a delegate from District #99 in the Constitutional Convention which met on Nov. 6th, 1906 at Guthrie to draw up a plan of government for what was to become the new state of Oklahoma.

His contributions in the deliberations of that body resulted in the county seat of the county he helped create being located in Wilburton, and his peers in the convention recognized his efforts by naming the County Latimer.

James Latimer passed away at the ripe old age of eighty-six and was well respected in all the communities in which he had resided.