In 1962 , Little was one of three Republicans elected to the Alabama House , when fellow Republican businessman James D. Martin of Gadsden nearly upset the veteran Democratic U.S. Senator J. Lister Hill of Montgomery . In that same election , the Republicans did not offer an opponent to 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 . Two years later , Little and his wife , the former Ruth Blair ( 1921 – 2013 ) , a Montgomery native and a graduate of Auburn University , were delegates to the 1964 Republican National Convention , which met in San Francisco to nominate the Goldwater – Miller ticket , the first Republican slate to win the electoral votes of Alabama since Reconstruction
1964 Republican National Convention
1964 Republican National Convention
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