Chauncey Bundy Little (February 10, 1877 – September 29, 1952) was a

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from

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. Born in

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, Little attended grade school and high school in Olathe and the Kansas State College at Manhattan. In 1898, he graduated from the law department of the

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. He was

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the same year and commenced practice in Olathe. He was the city attorney of Olathe from 1901–06, and served as the county attorney of

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from 1909 to 1913. Little was elected as a

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to the Sixty-ninth Congress (March 4, 1925 – March 3, 1927). He was an unsuccessful candidate for re-election in 1926 to the Seventieth Congress. He resumed the practice of law. He was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Kansas in 1928. He died in Olathe, Kansas on September 29, 1952, and was interred in Olathe Cemetery.

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1877 births 1952 deaths Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Kansas Kansas State University alumni University of Kansas School of Law alumni Politicians from Olathe, Kansas 20th-century members of the United States House of Representatives {{Kansas-politician-stub