Adam Brown Littlepage

Adam Brown Littlepage (* April 14, 1859 in Charleston, Virginia, † June 29, 1921 ) was an American politician. Between 1911 and 1919 he represented several times the state of West Virginia in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Born in what is now West Virginia Adam Littlepage attended the public schools of his home. After a subsequent study of law and qualifying as a lawyer, he began to work in his new job in 1882 in Newport ( Indiana). In 1884 he moved his residence and his law firm to Charleston. There he was legal adviser of the miners union of West Virginia.

Littlepage was a member of the Democratic Party. Between 1906 and 1910 he sat in the Senate of West Virginia. In the congressional elections of 1910 he was in the third district of the state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he is the successor of the Republican Joseph H. Gaines on March 4, 1911. But since he lost to Samuel B. Avis already at the next elections in 1912, Littlepage was initially able to do only one term in Congress until March 3, 1913. Shortly before the end of the 16th Amendment to the Constitution was adopted, which introduced the nationwide income tax. In 1914 he was able to regain his lost two years earlier mandate and represented the third electoral district between March 4, 1915, and March 3, 1917 at the U.S. House of Representatives. In the 1916 elections, he ran for the sixth district and was elected there for the term of between 4 March 1917 and 3 March 1919 in the Congress. This time was determined by the events of World War I, to which the United States participated since April 1917. In the 1918 elections Littlepage was defeated by Republican Leonard S. Echols.

After the end of his time in Congress Littlepage again worked as a lawyer. He died on 29 June 1921 in Charleston.