Charles E. Littlefield

Charles Edgar Littlefield ( born June 21, 1851 in Lebanon, Maine; † May 2, 1915 in New York City ) was an American politician. Between 1899 and 1908 he represented the state of Maine in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Charles Littlefield attended the common schools and the Foxcroft Academy. After a subsequent study of law and its made ​​in 1876 admitted to the bar, he began practicing in his new profession in Rockland. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. Between 1885 and 1887 he sat as an MP in the House of Representatives from Maine. In 1892 and 1896 he was a delegate to the Republican National Conventions relevant, on which Benjamin Harrison and William McKinley was nominated as the presidential candidate of the party.

After the death of Congressman Nelson Dingley Littlefield was at the election due in the second electoral district of Maine as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. There he entered on June 19, 1899 its new mandate. After he was confirmed in each case in the following four regular congressional elections, he could remain until his resignation on September 30, 1908 in Congress. Since 1905 he was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Department of Agriculture.

After his time in the House of Representatives Charles Littlefield moved to New York where he worked as a lawyer until his death in 1915. He was buried in Rockland.