Charles E. Littlefield

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Charles E. Littlefield

Charles Edgar Littlefield (born June 21, 1851 in Lebanon , Maine , †  May 2, 1915 in New York City ) was an American politician . Between 1899 and 1908 he represented the state of Maine in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Charles Littlefield attended his home public schools and Foxcroft Academy . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1876, he began to practice in Rockland in this profession. Politically, he became a member of the Republican Party . Between 1885 and 1887 he sat as a member of the House of Representatives from Maine , whose speaker he was temporarily. In 1892 and 1896 he took part as a delegate to the respective Republican National Conventions , at which Benjamin Harrison and William McKinley were nominated as the party's presidential candidates. From 1889 to 1893 he served as Attorney General of his state.

After the death of Congressman Nelson Dingley , Littlefield was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the due by-election in the second constituency of Maine . There he took up his new mandate on June 19, 1899. After he was confirmed in the following four regular congressional elections, he could remain in Congress until his resignation on September 30, 1908 . From 1905 he was chairman of the Committee for Control of Expenditures of the Ministry of Agriculture.

After serving in the House of Representatives, Charles Littlefield moved to New York, where he worked as a lawyer until his death in 1915. He was buried in Rockland.

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SURNAME Littlefield, Charles E.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Littlefield, Charles Edgar (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH June 21, 1851
PLACE OF BIRTH Lebanon , Maine
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1915
Place of death New York City