Sam Little

Infobox_State Representative


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name= Samuel Perry "Sam" Little
caption= State Representative Sam Little, Bastrop Republican
office= Louisiana State Representative from District 14 (Morehouse, Ouachita, West Carroll, and East Carroll parishes)
term_start=January 14, 2008
term_end=
preceded=Charles McDonald
succeeded=Incumbent
birth_date= 1950
birth_place= Bastrop in Morehouse Parish
death_date=
spouse= Pamela Doles Little (born 1954)
children= Daughters Christina and Clair
party= Republican
religion= Non-denominational Christian
occupation= Retired farmer

Samuel Perry Little (born 1950 [ [http://preview.ussearch.com/preview/newsearch;jsessionid=9677A0CE55E9A280300F508C8AB050E5?searchFName=Samuel&searchMName=&searchLName=Little&searchCity=Bastrop&searchState=LA&searchApproxAge=65&adID=10002101&searchtab=people&x=14&y=7 People Search & Background Check ] ] ) is a retired farmer from Bastrop, Louisiana, the seat of Morehouse Parish, and was sworn into office in Baton Rouge on January 14, 2008, as a member of the Louisiana House of Representatives from District 14. Little currently serves on three House Committees [ [House Committees] [http://house.louisiana.gov/H_Reps/H_Reps_CmtesFull.asp] ] : Agriculture, Forestry, Aquaculture, and Rural Development; Natural Resources and Environment; Transportation, Highways, and Public Works.

Little defeated Democrat Buddy M. Quinn, a retired dentist, also from Bastrop, by a margin of nine votes in the general election held on November 17, 2007. Little polled 3,936 votes (50.06 percent) to Quinn's 3,927 (49.94 percent) for the right to succeed term-limited Representative Charles McDonald of Bastrop, which is included within the Monroe standard metropolitan statistical area of northeast Louisiana. McDonald ran unsuccessfully for the Louisiana State Senate in the October 20 jungle primary, having been defeated by another term-limited representative, Republican Mike Walsworth of West Monroe in Ouachita Parish. [ [http://www.thenewsstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071118/NEWS01/711180322 The News Star - www.thenewsstar.com - Monroe, LA ] ]

Quinn won Morehouse Parish by 619 votes but trailed in Ouachita, West Carroll, and East Carroll, where portions of each parish are included in the district. Had the same number of voters who cast ballots in the attorney general's race also participated in the state representative contest, Quinn could have easily prevailed over Little, considering the 2-1 margin for successful Attorney General candidate Buddy Caldwell of Madison Parish over the Republican Royal Alexander of Shreveport. [http://bastrop.townnews.com/articles/2007/11/20/news/news84.txt]

Little had trailed in the higher-turnout October 20 primary, having received 4,479 (35 percent) to Quinn's 5,262 (41 percent). A second Republican, Stanley J. "Stan" Neathery, also of Bastrop, received 3,187 ballots (25 percent). Little lost 543 votes between the primary and the general election, but Quinn's tabulation decreased by 1,335. [ [http://www400.sos.louisiana.gov:8090/cgibin/?rqstyp=elcms3&rqsdta=102007 Louisiana Secretary of State-Multi-Parish Elections Inquiry ] ]

Little advertised on the radio program of the conservative talk show host Moon Griffon. After his election, he indicated that his first priority in office is ethics reform. Governor Bobby Jindal will call a special session of the legislature early in 2008 to address ethics reform. Little is anti-abortion and a vocal supporter of the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. [moongriffon.com] A Republican group ran a picture of Little superimposed next to Governor-elect Jindal. Quinn charged that the advertisement was "dirty politics" because Jindal endorsed no one in the legislative race, having instead said that he could work with either candidate. Walsworth had run a similar ad in his Senate race against McDonald. [http://bastrop.townnews.com/articles/2007/11/20/news/news89.txt] Little, a Bastrop native, has been married since 1971 to the former Pamela Doles (born 1954). The couple has two daughters, Christina and Clair. Little is an active member of Providence Church, in Lake Providence, [ [http://yellowpages.superpages.com/listings.jsp?SRC=promo23&channelId=pi518798elalakeprovidence&C=churches&L=Lake+Providence+LA&EG=0&MC=1&OO=1&F=1&EEM=1&CP=Community+%26+Government%5EReligion+%26+Spirituality%5EChurches%5EBaptist%5E Baptist Churches (Results 1 - 15 of 40) ~ churches Lake Providence LA ~ Simple Search ~ SuperPages.com: Yellow Pages ] ] the seat of East Carroll Parish. He attended both Northwestern State University in Natchitoches and the University of Louisiana at Monroe (then Northeast Louisiana University). He is a long-term director of the Louisiana and Morehouse Parish Farm Bureau Federation and the Morehouse Gin Company. He is a member of the Sparta Groundwater Conservation District based in Simsboro in Lincoln Parish; he was appointed to the district by outgoing Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco for a term which expires on October 15 2009. [ [http://www.legis.state.la.us/boards/board_members.asp?board=607 Louisiana Boards and Commissions ] ]

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