Little entered the practice of law in Talbot County, and shortly thereafter was elected solicitor of the county court. In 1872 he was appointed solicitor general of the Chattooga circuit; in 1877 he moved to Columbus, and was elected as a delegate to the constitutional convention, and served in the Georgia House of Representatives, of which he was speaker from 1884 to 1887. In 1891, he became Attorney General of Georgia, and was later appointed as an assistant attorney general of the United States.[1] In 1897, while holding this office he was elected to the state supreme court, and was re-elected in 1900 to a six-year term, but resigned from the court on January 1, 1903, due to poor health.[4] He was succeeded on the court by Joseph Rucker Lamar,[4] who would later serve on the Supreme Court of the United States.
Little retired from active practice in 1913 because of ill health. He was at that time a judge on the Chattahoochee circuit bench, a position he had held for a number of years.[1]
Personal life and deathedit
Little married Virginia Dozier,[3] with whom he had a son, John D. Little, who became a prominent attorney in Atlanta. Virginia Little died on April 4, 1912, at the age of 67.[5] Little died at his home in Columbus, Georgia, at the age of 85, and was buried beside his wife at Linwood Cemetery.[1]
Referencesedit
^ abcdefg"Little Funeral Set In Columbus Today", The Atlanta Constitution (February 28, 1924), p. 10.
^John B. Harris, A History of the Supreme Court of Georgia: A Centennial Volume (1948), p. 174.
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