Edward Geoffrey Lattin (May 9, 1920 – July 24, 1992) was a Canadian politician, who represented the electoral district of Whitehorse North Centre in the Legislative Assembly of Yukon from 1978 to 1982 as a member of the Yukon Progressive Conservative Party.^[1]

Born in Edmonton, Alberta in 1920, Lattin moved to Yukon in 1952.^[2] He worked as a railway foreman for several years until he and his brother Con bought Northland Beverages, a local soft drink distributor in 1958;^[1] they subsequently also purchased Whitehorse's Fort Yukon Hotel, where Lattin was manager until his election to the legislature.^[1] He was also an unsuccessful candidate for Whitehorse City Council in a by-election in 1976.^[3]

First elected in the 1978 Yukon general election, he suffered a heart attack in the legislative assembly in April 1979.^[4] He was appointed to the Executive Council of Yukon as Minister of Municipal and Community Affairs in 1980.^[5] He was admitted to hospital in December 1981 with chest pains from a suspected second heart attack, but was not considered to be in serious condition as he had been able to drive himself to the hospital.^[6] He held the cabinet role until the 1982 Yukon general election, in which he was defeated by Margaret Commodore of the Yukon New Democratic Party.^[7] He died on July 24, 1992, from a heart attack.^[1][8]

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