Martin W. Littleton

Martin Wiley Littleton (* January 12, 1872 in Kingston, Tennessee; † 19 December 1934 in Mineola, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1911 and 1913 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Martin Littleton was born about six and a half years after the end of the Civil War, near Kingston, where he spent the first few years. His family moved in 1881 to Texas, where they settled in Dallas. He attended community schools. He then studied law and began after the receipt of his admission as a solicitor in 1891 to practice in Dallas. Between 1893 and 1896 he worked as a public prosecutor ( prosecuting attorney ) in Dallas County. Last year, he moved to New York City, where he pursued his activities as a lawyer on. Between 1900 and 1904 he was district attorney ( district attorney ) in Kings County.

Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party. He took 1904 as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in part. In 1904 and 1905 he was Borough President of Brooklyn. In the congressional elections of 1910, Littleton was the first electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of the Republican William W. Cocks on 4 March 1911. Since he resigned in 1912 to run again, he retired after March 3, 1913 from the Congress. Then he resumed his activities as a lawyer. In the following years he lived first in New York City and then in Mineola, where he died on 19 December 1934. His body was interred in the family mausoleum City of Littleton's Woodlawn Cemetery in the New York.