US Congressman. He was born near Grape Grove, Ross Township, Greene County, Ohio, to Robert Little (1810-1875), and Elizabeth Hiett Little (1807-1887), on April 25, 1837. He was educated locally in common public schools and later attended the prestigious Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in 1862. He then studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1865 and commenced his practice of law in Xenia, Ohio. He then entered politics and was elected the Mayor of Xenia, Ohio, and served in that post from 1864 to 1866. He was also the Prosecuting Attorney of Greene County, Ohio, from 1866 to 1870. He also served as a Member of the Ohio State House of Representatives from 1869 to 1873, and as the Ohio State Attorney General from 1872 to 1878. He then decided to run for a seat in the United States House of Representatives and was elected to succeed the outgoing United States Representative Joseph Warren Keifer (1836-1932), on March 4, 1885. A Member of the Republican Party, he then served Ohio's 8th District (Forty-Ninth Congress), in the United States House of Representatives from March 4, 1885, to March 3, 1887. He was re-districted after he lost his bid for re-election by two votes in 1886. After his term in the United States Congress expired on March 3, 1887, he was succeeded in office by United States Representative Robert Patterson Kennedy (1840-1918), on March 4, 1887. After his time in the United States Congress, he resumed his practice of law until he was appointed by then-President of the United States Benjamin Harrison (1833-1901), as a Member of the United States and Venezuela Claims Commission in 1889, and was also its Chairman. He lastly served as a Member of the Ohio State Board of Arbitration, and was a Trustee of Antioch College in Xenia, Ohio, from 1880 to 1900. He then once again resumed his practice of law until his death. He was also engaged in several business interests including as a stockbroker in the Hoover & Allison Cordage Factory, the Xenia National Bank, and the Dayton & Xenia Traction Company. He also dealt quite a bit in the wool industry. He was married to Barbara Jean Sheets Little (1838-1902), of Troy, Ohio, on October 19, 1865, with whom he had two children, George and Mary. He passed away from heart failure at his home in Xenia, Ohio, on October 18, 1900, and he was buried in Woodland Cemetery in Xenia, Ohio, where several other famous personalities are also laid to rest.