Peter Little

Peter Little ( born December 11, 1775 in Petersburg, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania, † February 5, 1830 in Freedom, Maryland ) was an American politician. Between 1811 and 1813, and again from 1816 to 1829, he represented the state of Maryland in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Peter Little attended the public schools of his home and then was a watchmaker. He later moved to Freedom, where he worked in agriculture. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic-Republican Party launched a political career. In the years 1806 and 1807, he sat in the House of Representatives from Maryland. In the congressional elections of 1810 he was the Democratic- Republican Party in the fifth electoral district of his state in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he took up his new mandate on March 4, 1811. Since he resigned in 1812 to further candidacy, he was initially able to do only one term in Congress until March 3, 1813.

During the British - American War of 1812 was Little 1813-1815 colonel in an infantry unit from Maryland. Following the resignation of Mr William Pinkney, he was elected as his successor in the U.S. House of Representatives at the due election for the fifth seat of Maryland, where he took his seat on September 2, 1816. After five elections he could remain until March 3, 1829 in Congress. In the 1820s, he initially joined the movement to the future President Andrew Jackson, which he then turned away again. Then he supported President John Quincy Adams. Between 1815 and 1819 Little was chairman of the Committee on Accounts; 1823 to 1827 he headed the Pension Committee, which also dealt with severance from the revolutionary period. In 1827 and 1829 he was chairman of the committee responsible for supervising the expenditure of the Navy Department.

1828 renounced Peter Little on a bid again. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he was a judge at the court of guardianship for orphans in Baltimore County. He died on February 5, 1830 in Freedom.