William Wilson Potter (December 18, 1792 – October 28, 1839) was a member of the
U.S. House of Representatives from
Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania (; ( Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...
.
William W. Potter was born at
Potters Mills, Pennsylvania. He completed preparatory studies in
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
Bellefonte is a borough in, and the county seat of, Centre County in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. It is approximately twelve miles northeast of State College and is part of the State College, Pennsylvania Metropolitan Statistical Area. The bor ...
, and graduated from
Dickinson College
, mottoeng = Freedom is made safe through character and learning
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, type = Private liberal arts college
, endowment = $645.5 million (2022)
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in
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
Carlisle is a borough in and the county seat of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, United States. Carlisle is located within the Cumberland Valley, a highly productive agricultural region. As of the 2020 census, the borough population was 20,118; ...
. He studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1814 and practiced his profession.
Potter was elected as a
Democrat to the
Twenty-fifth and
Twenty-sixth Congresses and served until his death, before the assembling of the Twenty-sixth Congress, in Bellefonte. Interment in
Union Cemetery in Bellefonte.
See also
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The Political Graveyard
Pennsylvania lawyers
1792 births
1839 deaths
Burials in Pennsylvania
People from Centre County, Pennsylvania
Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Pennsylvania
19th-century American politicians
19th-century American lawyers
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