elected again to the Maryland House of Delegates in 1900. He served as speaker of the House of Delegates in 1901. Latrobe served as president of the Consolidated Gas Company from 1901 to 1910. A 1993 survey of historians, political scientists and urban experts conducted by Melvin G. Holli of the University of Illinois at Chicago ranked Latrobe as the twenty-seventh-best American big-city mayor to have served between the years 1820 and 1993. Personal life In 1861, Latrobe married Louisa Sherlock Swann, daughter of Thomas Swann, who was formerly Mayor of Baltimore and Governor of Maryland. They had one son, Swann. The child died before reaching manhood. His wife she died in 1865. Latrobe married Ellen Penrose Swann, the widow of Thomas Swann, Jr., in 1880 and together they had three children: Ferdinande Charlotte (b. 1881), Ellen Virginia (b. 1883), and Ferdinand Claiborne Latrobe, Jr. (1889–1944). Latrobe died on January 13, 1911, at his home at 904 North Charles Street in Baltimore. He had a Masonic funeral that was commanded by Grand Master Thomas J. Shryock. He was buried at Green Mount Cemetery in Baltimore. Quotes "We have always had the most beautiful women and the finest oysters in the world, and now we have the best baseball club." (speaking of the first, short-lived incarnation of the Baltimore Orioles, in 1894) References Wilson, J.G., Fiske, J., and Klos, S.L. (eds.) (1889). Appleton's Cyclopedia of American Biography. 6 vol. New York: D. Appleton & Co. The Political Graveyard, http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/latno-lavorato.html External links Ferdinand Claiborne Latrobe papers, 1833–1922 at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Resources at the Maryland State Archives Digitized copies of Latrobe's hand-written speeches are available through the Maryland Digital Cultural Heritage program 1833 births 1911 deaths Mayors of Baltimore Speakers of the Maryland House of Delegates 19th-century American politicians Latrobe family