Chauncey B. Little

Chauncy Bundee Little ( born February 10, 1877 in Olathe, Kansas, † September 29, 1952 ) was an American politician. Between 1925 and 1927 he represented the second electoral district of the state of Kansas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Chauncey Little attended the public schools of his home, and the Kansas State College in Manhattan. After studying law and its made ​​in 1898 admitted to the bar he began in Olathe to work in his new profession. Between 1901 and 1906 he was the legal representative of the City Olathe and from 1909 to 1913 he was district attorney in Johnson County.

Little was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1924 he was appointed as their candidate in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he Republican U. S. Guyer replaced on March 4, 1925. But since he lost to Guyer at the next election in 1926, he was able to complete only one term in Congress until March 3, 1927.

After the end of his time in the House of Representatives Little again worked as a lawyer. In 1928 he ran unsuccessfully for the office of the Governor of Kansas. He reached only 33.2 percent of the vote and defeated, well the Republicans Clyde M. Reed. Little Chauncey died in September 1929 in his birthplace Olathe and was also buried there.