Elisha Reynolds Potter junior

Elisha Reynolds Potter junior

Elisha Reynolds Potter junior (born June 20, 1811 in Kingston , Rhode Island , † April 10, 1882 there ) was an American politician . Between 1843 and 1845 he represented the second constituency of the state of Rhode Island in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Elisha Potter was the son of Elisha Potter Sr. (1764-1835), who had represented the State of Rhode Island in the US House of Representatives between 1796 and 1797. The younger Potter attended Kingston Academy and then Harvard University until 1830 . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1832, he began to work in South Kingston in his new profession.

Between 1835 and 1836 he served as Adjutant General of Rhode Island, head of the National Guard; from 1838 to 1840 he sat as a member of the State House of Representatives . It was then that he joined the short-lived Law and Order Party , when he was elected to the US House of Representatives in the second district of Rhode Island in 1842. There he replaced Joseph L. Tillinghast on March 4, 1843 . Since he already lost in the next election to Lemuel H. Arnold of the Whig Party , Potter could only hold one term in Congress until March 3, 1845 . There he was chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business .

Between 1847 and 1852 and again from 1861 to 1863 Potter was a member of the Rhode Island Senate . From 1849 to 1854 he was also responsible for overseeing the state schools in his state. From 1868 he was an associate judge on the Rhode Island Supreme Court. He held this office until his death on April 10, 1882.

Web links

• Elisha Reynolds Potter in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Elisha Reynolds Potter junior in the database of Find a Grave (English)