Adam Brown Littlepage

Adam Brown Littlepage, 1911

Adam Brown Littlepage (born April 14, 1859 near Charleston , Virginia , † June 29, 1921 there ) was an American politician . Between 1911 and 1919 he represented the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives several times .

Career

Born in what is now West Virginia, Adam Littlepage attended public schools in his homeland. After a subsequent law degree and his license to practice law, he began to work in his new profession in Newport ( Indiana ) in 1882 . In 1884 he moved his residence and law firm to Charleston. There he became a legal advisor to the West Virginia Miners Association.

Littlepage was a member of the Democratic Party . Between 1906 and 1910 he was a member of the West Virginia Senate . In the congressional elections of 1910 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the third district of the state , where he succeeded Republican Joseph H. Gaines on March 4, 1911 . But since he lost to Samuel B. Avis in the next election in 1912 , Littlepage was initially only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1913 . Shortly before its end, the 16th amendment to the constitution was passed, which introduced the nationwide income tax. In 1914 he was able to regain his mandate, which had been lost two years earlier, and represented the third electoral district between March 4, 1915 and March 3, 1917 in the US House of Representatives. In the elections of 1916 he ran for the sixth district and was elected to Congress for the legislative period between March 4, 1917 and March 3, 1919. This time was determined by the events of World War I , in which the United States had participated since April 1917. In the elections of 1918 Littlepage was defeated by the Republican Leonard S. Echols .

After his tenure in Congress was over, Littlepage returned to practice as a lawyer. He died in Charleston on June 29, 1921.

Web links

• Adam Brown Littlepage in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Adam Brown Littlepage in the database of Find a Grave (English)