Benjamin Horsley Littleton

Benjamin Horsley Littleton (August 27, 1889 – July 6, 1966) was a judge of the United States Board of Tax Appeals (later the United States Tax Court) from 1924 to 1929, and of the United States Court of Claims. Education and career Born to a pioneer family in Weatherford, Texas, Littleton was raised to be a farmer, but developed an interest in the law and began reading law in pursuit of the profession. He graduated from a business college and received a Bachelor of Laws from Cumberland School of Law (then part of Cumberland University, now part of Samford University) in 1914. He was in private practice in Tennessee from 1914 to 1918, and was then an Assistant United States Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee from 1918 to 1921, which position he held until appointed to the solicitor's office, October 26, 1921. He was a special attorney with the Office of the General Counsel of the Bureau of Internal Revenue (now the Internal Revenue Service) in the United States Department of the Treasury from 1921 to 1924. Federal judicial service