The Prescott daily news., 1916-10-30
FORMER GOVERNOR
 LITTLE SUCCUMBS
Brief Illness Proves Fatal at H0spital-Burial at Green wo0d-Never Defeated For an Office.

Office.
 - John Sebastian Little, 65 years old, ! twenty-eighth governor of Arkansas, died at 2:10 o'clock yesterday morning at the State Hospital for Nervous Dis eases, where he had been undergoing treatment for an organic brain disease during the last five or six years.
 The body is being held by Healy & Roth, and will be sent to Greenwood this afternoon for burial
 Former Governor Little was born near old Jenny Lind, Sebastian coun- ty, March 15, 1851. He was the first male child born in the county after it's formation and his parents named him "Sebastian." Afterward he was fa- miliarly known as Bass Little. Gov ernor Little was educated in the com mon schools near his home and at Cane Hill College, Washington county. After leaving college he taught school for two or three terms, and then read law under the late Judge C. B. Neal. When he was admitted to the bar he began the practice of law at Green wood, the county seat of Sebastian county, where he practiced for a short while and then moved to Paris, Logan county, where he practiced for two or three years.
 Wins First Race.
 His first entry into politics was when he made the race for prescott ing attorney in his district, while only 21 years of age, against five of the strongest lawyers in the state, and in this race won great victory. The district at the time was composed of Crawford, Logan, Scott and Sebastian counties. He served three terms as prosecuting attorney.
 In order to save the Democratic party from defeat at the hands of the Populist party, he, with the late Gov ernor Fishback, permitted their names to be placed on the Democratic ticket for the legislature, and after one of the hottest campaigns ever waged in western Arkansas they were both elected to that body. After serving in the legislature he returned to his. old home at Greenwood and took up the lpractice of law, which he successfully followed for several years, gaining the reputation of being one of the most influential lawyers in that part of the state.
 Governor Little re-entered politics and was elected judge of his judicial district and resigned before his term expired and entered the race for Con- gress against w. L. Terry, but on ac- count of failing health withdrew from the race.
 After regaining his health he again returned to Greenwood and very sue cessfully re-entered the practice of law. In 1893 he became a candidate for Congress from the Second Con- gressional District against Clifton R. Breckenridge, carrying practically every county in the district. He was continually reelected to Congress for II years without ever having a Demo- cratic opponent. At the expiration of his service in Congress he was over whelmingly elected governor carry ing every county in the state but three. During his political career, he was never defeated.
 Shortly after his inauguration as governor he was stricken, and \. 0. Pindall president pro tenn of the Sen- ate. filled the office during the re- mainder of his term.
 Former Governor Little is survived by his wife, Mrs. Elizabeth J. Little of Fort Smith; three sons, Judge Paul Little, circuit judge of Fort Smith Thomas E. Little of Van Buran and ]. IE. Little, 1920 West Sixth street, clerk in the state highway department; and | by two daughters, Mrs. H. B. Patter- son of Okemah, Okla, and Mrs. Matt