Peter Little

Peter Little (born December 11, 1775 in Petersburg , Huntingdon County , Province of Pennsylvania , †  February 5, 1830 in Freedom , Maryland ) was an American politician . Between 1811 and 1813 and again from 1816 to 1829 he represented the state of Maryland in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Peter Little attended the public schools in his home country and then became a watchmaker. He later moved to Freedom, where he worked in agriculture. At the same time he embarked on a political career as a member of the Democratic Republican Party . He served in the Maryland House of Representatives in 1806 and 1807 . In the congressional election of 1810 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC for the Democratic Republican Party in the fifth constituency of his state , where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1811. Since he renounced another candidacy in 1812, he was initially only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1813 .

During the British-American War of 1812 Little was a colonel in an infantry unit out of Maryland from 1813 to 1815. After the resignation of MP William Pinkney , he was elected as his successor to the US House of Representatives at the due by-election for the fifth seat of Maryland, where he took up his mandate on September 2, 1816. After five re-elections, he could remain in Congress until March 3, 1829. In the 1820s he first joined the movement around the future President Andrew Jackson , from which he then turned away again. He then supported President John Quincy Adams . Between 1815 and 1819 Little was chairman of the Committee on Accounts ; from 1823 to 1827 he headed the pension committee, which also dealt with severance payments from the revolutionary era. From 1827 to 1829 he was chairman of the Department of Navy's Expenditures Control Committee.

In 1828 Peter Little decided not to run again. After serving in the US House of Representatives, he was a judge on the Guardianship Court for Orphans in Baltimore County . He died in Freedom on February 5, 1830.

Web links

• Peter Little in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Peter Little in the database of Find a Grave (English)