Edward C. Little

Edward Campbell Little (December 14, 1858 - June 27, 1924) was a U.S. Representative from Kansas.

Born in Newark, Ohio, Little moved to Kansas in 1866 with his parents, who settled in Olathe.He attended the public schools of Abilene, Kansas, and was graduated from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas in 1883. Connected with the Santa Fe Railroad for several years.He studied law.He was admitted to the bar in 1886 and commenced practice in Lawrence, Kansas.He served as chairman of the Republican State convention in 1888. City attorney of Ness City in 1889.He served as prosecuting attorney of Dickinson County 1890-1892.He served as delegate at large to the Republican National Convention in 1892. United States diplomatic agent and consul general with rank of Minister Resident to Egypt in 1892 and 1893. Private secretary to Gov. John W. Leedy in 1896 and 1897.He was an unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in 1897.He served as lieutenant colonel of the Twentieth Regiment, Kansas Volunteers, during the Spanish-American War in 1898 and 1899.He received Congressional Medal of Honor as well as the Spanish War and Philippine Campaign Medals for services in the Philippines.He settled in Kansas City, Kansas, in 1908.

Little was elected as a Republican to the Sixty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses and served from March 4, 1917, until is death in Washington, D.C., June 27, 1924.He served as chairman of the Committee on Revision of the Laws (Sixty-sixth through Sixty-eighth Congresses).He was interred in the City Cemetery, Abilene, Kansas.

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