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==Political life==

==Political life==

In 1962, Little was one of three Republicans elected to the Alabama House, when fellow Republican businessman James Douglas Martin (1918-2017) of Gadsden nearly upset the veteran [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[U.S. Senator]] [[Lister Hill]] of Montgomery. In that same election, the Republicans did not offer an opponent to [[George Wallace|George C. Wallace]], the Democrat who for a time became synonymous with the desire to preserve [[segregation]] in the American South. The two other Republicans elected with Little to single terms in the House were Donald Lamar Collins (1929-1993) of Jefferson County, and John Andrew Posey, Jr. (1923-1972), of Winston County, in  northern Alabama.<ref name=alaleg/> Two years later, Little and his wife, the former Virginia Ruth Blair (1921-2013), a Montgomery native and a graduate of [[Auburn University]],<ref name=wifesobit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/montgomeryadvertiser/obituary.aspx?pid=165937706|title=Ruth Little obituary|publisher=''The Montgomery Advertiser''|accessdate=May 29, 2014}}</ref> were delegates to the 1964 [[Republican National Convention]], which met in [[San Francisco]], [[California]], to nominate the [[Barry Goldwater|Goldwater]]-[[William E. Miller|Miller]] ticket,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/little.html|title=Little, Tandy, Jr.|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=August 30, 2021}}</ref> the first Republican slate to win the [[electoral vote]]s of Alabama since [[Reconstruction]].

In 1962, Little was one of three Republicans elected to the Alabama House, when fellow Republican businessman James Douglas Martin (1918-2017) of Gadsden nearly upset the veteran [[Democratic Party|Democratic]] [[U.S. Senator]] [[Lister Hill]] of Montgomery. In that same election, the Republicans did not offer an opponent to [[George Wallace|George C. Wallace]], the Democrat who for a time became synonymous with the desire to preserve [[segregation]] in the American South. The two other Republicans elected with Little to single terms in the House were Donald Lamar Collins (1929-1993) of Jefferson County, and John Andrew Posey, Jr. (1923-1972), of Winston County, in  northern Alabama.<ref name=alaleg/> Two years later, Little and his wife, the former Virginia Ruth Blair (1921-2013), a Montgomery native and a graduate of [[Auburn University]],<ref name=wifesobit>{{cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/montgomeryadvertiser/obituary.aspx?pid=165937706|title=Ruth Little obituary|publisher=''The Montgomery Advertiser''|accessdate=August 30, 2021}}</ref> were delegates to the 1964 [[Republican National Convention]], which met in [[San Francisco]], [[California]], to nominate the [[Barry Goldwater|Goldwater]]-[[William E. Miller|Miller]] ticket,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/little.html|title=Little, Tandy, Jr.|publisher=The Political Graveyard|accessdate=August 30, 2021}}</ref> the first Republican slate to win the [[electoral vote]]s of Alabama since [[Reconstruction]].

In 1965, Little and another Republican representative from Montgomery, [[Alfred Goldthwaite]], who had defected the previous year from the Democrats, fought George Wallace's move to permit governors to succeed themselves, a change finally adopted for the 1974 election.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=-i1HBMC6qsEC&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136|author=Jeff Frederick|title= Stand Up for Alabama: Governor George Wallace|publisher=[[University of Alabama]] Press |date=2007 |page=119|isbn=9780817315740|accessdate=August 30, 2021}}</ref>

In 1965, Little and another Republican representative from Montgomery, [[Alfred Goldthwaite]], who had defected the previous year from the Democrats, fought George Wallace's move to permit governors to succeed themselves, a change finally adopted for the 1974 election.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=-i1HBMC6qsEC&pg=PA136&lpg=PA136|author=Jeff Frederick|title= Stand Up for Alabama: Governor George Wallace|publisher=[[University of Alabama]] Press |date=2007 |page=119|isbn=9780817315740|accessdate=August 30, 2021}}</ref>