Stephen Potter (August 14, 1727 – 1793) was a

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politician who served for three periods a justice of the

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. Potter was the son of the first settler in Cranston, Rhode Island, and moved to the county of Kent, Rhode Island, and settled. He was "a leading politician in the paper-money party, which arose in Rhode Island soon after the Revolutionary War", and served as "speaker of the House of Representatives, chief-justice of the Court of Common Pleas, and a judge of the Supreme Court of the State".''The Historical Magazine and Notes and Queries Concerning the Antiquities, History, and Biography of America'' (1862), p. 35. Potter's served on the Rhode Island Supreme Court from May 1764 to May 1765, and again from May 1767 to May 1768, and a third time from May 1778 to May 1780;Rhode Island. Dept. of State, ''Manual – the State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations'' (1882), p. 135-36. his service as Speaker of the House was from 1778 to 1779.

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