Robert E. Latta

Republican · OH-5 · U.S. House

Bio

Robert Edward Latta is an American politician who is the United States representative for Ohio's 5th congressional district. Currently in his 10th term, Latta has served in Congress since 2007, and prior to that he served four terms in the Ohio House of Representatives. He is a member of the Republican Party. The fifth district includes many of Toledo's suburbs, as well as Findlay, Bowling Green, Tiffin, Napoleon, Sylvania, Defiance and Van Wert, and a sliver of Toledo itself.

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Record of service

In office: 18.7 years
First took office: 2007 (10 terms)
Seniority: 63 of 437 by time served
Age: 70

Family in Congress

son of Delbert L. Latta

District offices

Bowling Green, OH · 419-354-8700
Findlay, OH · 419-422-7791
Elyria, OH · 440-406-5010

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Service history, offices and identifiers from unitedstates/congress-legislators (public domain). Years served sum each term rather than subtracting the first start date, so a break in service is not counted as time in office.

Reported net worth

2019

$5.4M

2020

$6.4M

2021

$7.3M

2022

$7.0M

2023

$7.1M

2024

$7.7M

2025

$11.6M

Most recent filing (2025)

Assets: $6.3M – $16.9M
Liabilities: $0 – $0
Net worth: $6.3M – $16.9M
Since 2019: +$6.1M

Largest holdings in the 2025 filing · 85 assets reported

Vanguard 500 Index Fund Admiral$1.0M – $5.0M

Fidelity Equity Dividend Income Fund formerly Fidelity Equity Income II$500k – $1.0M

Fidelity Low Priced Stock$500k – $1.0M

Fidelity Blue Chip$250k – $500k

Fidelity Contrafund$250k – $500k

Fidelity Puritan$250k – $500k

Nuveen LfSt Conserv Rtmt$250k – $500k

TIAA Traditional$250k – $500k

Vanguard Institutional Index (VINIX)$250k – $500k

EuroPacific Growth Fund Cl R-6 (RERGX)$100k – $250k

Farmers & Merchants Bancorp, Inc. (FMAO)$100k – $250k

Fidelity 500 Index Fund Premium, Formerly known as Spartan 500 Index Fund$100k – $250k

Fidelity Asset Manager 50%$100k – $250k

Fidelity Equity Dividend Income Fund formerly Fidelity Equity Income II$100k – $250k

Fidelity Fund$100k – $250k

Fidelity Nasdaq Composite Index$100k – $250k

Vanguard Total Stock Mkt Indx Inv$100k – $250k

Buckeye State Bank$50k – $100k

Fidelity Blue Chip$50k – $100k

Fidelity Growth and Income$50k – $100k

Fidelity OTC Port$50k – $100k

Fidelity Total Market Index Fund$50k – $100k

Genoa Bank$50k – $100k

Huntington National Bank$50k – $100k

John Hancock Life Insurance Co. USA$50k – $100k

KeyBank$50k – $100k

New Perspective Fund, Class R-6 Shares (RNPGX)$50k – $100k

SP Undetermined None PIMCO Funds High Yield Fund Institutional Shares (PHIYX)$50k – $100k

WesBanco Bank fka Premier Bank$50k – $100k

Buckeye State Bank$15k – $50k

Largest first, capped at 40 line items. Each is the asset's reported value bracket, not the income it produced.

From annual financial disclosures, which report every asset and debt as a bracket — so these are ranges, and the figure shown is their midpoint. A primary residence is not a reportable asset while its mortgage is a reportable debt, which pushes some members negative. How this is calculated →

Overall lean (DW-NOMINATE)

LeftCenterRight

Issue profile

Taxes & Fiscal

R+0.77

Healthcare

R+0.72

Immigration & Border

R+0.97

Guns

R+0.91

Abortion & Reproductive Rights

R+0.99

Environment & Energy

R+0.86

Crime & Policing

R+0.90

Defense & Veterans

R+0.79

Economy & Labor

R+0.82

Foreign Policy & Trade

R+0.68

Civil Rights & Social

R+0.21

Education

R+0.74

Government & Democracy

R+0.88

Judicial & Executive Nominations

R+1.00

Each issue runs left ↔ right, scored from how the member voted on bills tagged to that issue (−1…+1). Issues with too few votes are blank. Overall lean uses DW-NOMINATE.

How they score against the parties

Robert E. Latta's voting record compared with each party's national platform, issue by issue — the same similarity score used across the site.

90%Closest

64%

28%

18%

Democratic Socialists (DSA)

15%

Communist Party USA

13%

On the political map

Robert E. Latta (the large ringed dot) among every current member of Congress and the party platforms.

Party platforms:Communist Party USADemocratic Socialists (DSA)Green PartyDemocratic PartyRepublican PartyLibertarian Party

Each small dot is a current member (Dem · Rep); the larger dots are party platforms — click one for its closest members. Economic axis: taxes, healthcare, labor, energy. Social axis: abortion, guns, immigration, civil rights, crime.

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Caucuses & committees

Where Lattasits in Congress's own organization — each group's lean is computed from its members' voting records. Explore them all on the caucuses and committees pages.

Caucuses

Republican Study Committeestrongly right · 139 members

Committees

House Committee on Energy and Commercecenter · 54 members
Communications and Technology Energy (Chair)Environment

Most and least aligned members

Treating Latta's 14 issue scores as a vector, cosine similarity measures whether two voting records point the same way (+100%) or in opposite directions (−100%) — the colleagues whose records align most and least with theirs.