Edward C. Little

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Edward C. Little

Edward Campbell Little (born December 14, 1858 in Newark , Ohio , †  June 27, 1924 in Washington, DC ) was an American politician . Between 1917 and 1924 he represented the second constituency of the state of Kansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Edward Little came to Olathe , Kansas, with his parents in 1866 . He attended the public schools in Abilene and then studied until 1883 at the University of Kansas at Lawrence . He then worked for some time for the Santa Fe Railroad . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1886, he began to work in his new profession in Lawrence.

Little was a member of the Republican Party . In 1888 he headed their regional party convention in Kansas; In 1892 he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Minneapolis . In 1889 he was an attorney for the city of Ness City , between 1890 and 1892 he was a district attorney in Dickinson County . Between 1892 and 1893 he was in the diplomatic service of the federal government and represented the United States as envoy to Egypt . In 1897 he was the private secretary of Governor John W. Leedy . In the same year he applied unsuccessfully for a seat in the US Senate . During the Spanish-American War of 1898 he was a lieutenant colonel in a volunteer unit from Kansas. For his military achievements during this war he received, among other things, the Medal of Merit of the Congress . From 1908 Edward Little lived in Kansas City (Kansas).

In the 1916 congressional elections, he was elected to the US House of Representatives in the second district of Kansas. There he succeeded the Democrat Joseph Taggart on March 4, 1917 . After he won the three subsequent elections, he could remain in Congress until his death on June 27, 1924. From 1919 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with the revision of the legislation. The politician who was married to Edna Margaret Steele (1874–1943) was buried in Abilene.

Web links

  • Edward C. Little in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Little, Edward C.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Little, Edward Campbell (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH December 14, 1858
PLACE OF BIRTH Newark , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH June 27, 1924
Place of death Washington, DC