Finis H. Little
Finis H. Little | |
|---|---|
 c. 1874 | |
| 16th President pro tempore of the Mississippi State Senate | |
| In office January 21, 1874 – June 3, 1875 | |
| Preceded by | Joseph Bennett |
| Succeeded by | John M. Stone |
| Member of the Mississippi Senate from the 22nd district | |
| In office January 1870 – January 1876 | |
| Personal details | |
| Died | February 5, 1880 Aberdeen, Mississippi, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
Finis H. Little (died February 5, 1880) was a state legislator in Mississippi. A Republican, he served during the Reconstruction era.[1] He served with F. M. Abbott from the 22nd District.[2] He served as president pro tem of the state senate and chaired its finance committee.[3][4]
He was raised in Calhoon, Kentucky.[5] He was the third son of Judge Douglas Little, and his brother was Judge L. P. Little.[5]
He served as an officer with a unit of the Union Army from Kentucky during the American Civil War.[6][7]
He represented Chickasaw County in the Mississippi State Senate from 1870 to 1876.[8]
According to one account, he was part of a planned march of African American Republicans that was faced down by armed white supremacists allied with the Democratic Party.[9] In 1875 he wrote seeking protection for Republican voters in areas where they were a great majority, expressing his expectation of intimidation and Democratic Party control over polling.[10] In 1875 he also conveyed a message from the Republican Caucus of Mississippi to President Ulysses Grant seeking a change in the federal official overseeing U.S. Marshals in the area.[11] He described how whites in Aberdeen, Mississippi in Monroe County welcomed Klansmen home as heroes and lawyers offered them their services in defense against federal prosecution.[12]
Little died of consumption in Aberdeen, Mississippi, on February 5, 1880.[13][5]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Members Elected to the Legislature". The Clarion-Ledger. Jackson, Mississippi. 1869-12-09. p. 2. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
- ^ "Members elect to the Legislature". Mississippi Pilot. 1870-02-19. p. 4. Retrieved 2022-11-27.
- ^ Journal of the Senate of the State of Mississippi. Jackson, Mississippi: Kimball, Raymond & Co. 1874. p. 192.
- ^ Watson, Michael (2021). Mississippi Official & Statistical Register – Blue Book 2020 - 2024 (PDF). Jackson, Mississippi: Mississippi Secretary of State. p. 553.
- ^ a b c "Finis H Little died". The Ohio County News. 1880-02-25. p. 3. Retrieved 2025-04-11.
- ^ "Legislative Document No. 13 – Adjutant General's Report". Kentucky Public Documents. Frankfort, Kentucky: Kentucky General Assembly. 1862.
- ^ Battle, J. H.; Perrin, William Henry; Kniffin, G. C. (1885). Kentucky: A History of the State, Embracing a Concise Account of the Origin and Development of the Virginia Colony; Its Expansion Westward, and the Settlement of the Frontier Beyond the Alleghanies; the Erection of Kentucky as an Independent State, and Its Subsequent Development. F. A. Battey Publishing Company. p. 623.
- ^ Lowry, Robert; McCardle, William H. (1891). A History of Mississippi: From the Discovery of the Great River by Hernando DeSoto, Including the Earliest Settlement Made by the French Under Iberville, to the Death of Jefferson Davis. R.H. Henry & Company. p. 455. ISBN 978-0-7884-4821-8.
{{cite book}}: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help) - ^ Browne, F. Z. (1913). "Reconstruction in Oktibbeha County". Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society. 13: 288 – via Google Books.
- ^ Reports of Committees of the Senate of the United States for the First Session of the Forty-Fourth Congress, 1875–'76. Washington: Government Printing Office. 1876. pp. 54–55.
- ^ Grant, Ulysses Simpson (2003). The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant: 1874. SIU Press. p. 309. ISBN 978-0-8093-2498-9.
- ^ Hargrove, David M. (2019-01-17). Mississippi's Federal Courts: A History. Univ. Press of Mississippi. p. 100. ISBN 978-1-4968-1951-2.
- ^ "Article clipped from Memphis Daily Appeal". Memphis Daily Appeal. 1880-02-15. p. 2. Retrieved 2025-04-11.
