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Little, John S

lawyer, jurist, state legislator, congressman, was born March 15, 1853, in Jenny Lind, Ark. He was elected a representative to the Arkansas legislature in 1884; and in 1886 was elected circuit judge for a term of four years. In 1893 he was chosen as chairman of the state judicial convention; and in 1894 was elected, without opposition, as a democrat to fill the unexpired term of C. R. Breckinridge in the fifty-third congress. He was elected to the fiftyfourth and fifty-fifth congresses as a democrat.

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