| 词条 | Elisha R. Potter |
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| name = Elisha Reynolds Potter, Jr. | image name = Elisha Reynolds Potter, Jr. (Rhode Island Judge and Congressman).jpg | birth_date = {{birth date|1811|6|20}} | birth_place = Kingston, Rhode Island | death_date = {{death date and age|1882|4|10|1811|6|20}} | death_place = Kingston, Rhode Island | state1 = Rhode Island | district1 = 2nd | term_start1 = March 4, 1843 | term_end1 = March 3, 1845 | preceded1 = District created | succeeded1 = Lemuel H. Arnold | office2 = Member of the Rhode Island Senate | term2 = 1847–1852 1861–1863 | party = Law and Order | spouse = | occupation = Lawyer | parents = Elisha Reynolds Potter | religion = | resting_place = Colonel Thomas Potter Cemetery in South Kingstown | residence = Kingston, Rhode Island }} Elisha Reynolds Potter (June 20, 1811 – April 10, 1882) was a politician and jurist from Kingston, Rhode Island. He was a justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and served one term in the United States House of Representatives. BiographyElisha Reynolds Potter, Jr. was born in Little Rest (now Kingston), Rhode Island on June 20, 1811. His father Elisha Reynolds Potter, Sr. was a lawyer who served in Congress. He attended Kingston Academy and graduated from Harvard University in 1830. He studied law while teaching school, was admitted to the bar in 1832 and practiced in South Kingstown Township. From 1835 to 1836 Potter was adjutant general of the state militia. He served in the Rhode Island House of Representatives from 1838 to 1840. He was a delegate to the state constitutional convention of 1841 to 1842. In 1842 Potter was elected as a Law and Order Party candidate to the Twenty-eighth Congress, and he served one term, March 4, 1843 to March 3, 1845. During his term he was Chairman of the Committee on Revisal and Unfinished Business. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1844 to the Twenty-ninth Congress. Potter served in the Rhode Island State Senate from 1847 to 1852, and again from 1861 to 1863. He was the state commissioner of public schools from 1849 to 1854. In 1868 Potter became an associate justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court, and he served until his death. He died in Kingston on April 10, 1882 and was buried in the Colonel Thomas Potter Cemetery in South Kingstown.[1] Potter's notes and correspondence now held by the Rhode Island Historical Society "may be the best collection in the holdings of the Manuscripts Division for research on either the Dorr Rebellion or early 19th-century Rhode Island politics, including Rhode Island's role in the major national issues of the day and presidential policy-making." Potter's personally annotated copy of the printed draft of what would become the Constitution of Rhode Island is generally regarded as the best extant record, beyond the bare official minutes, of the proceedings of the 1842 constitutional convention.[2] See also
References1. ^{{Findagrave|15552157}} 2. ^{{ cite web| url = http://www.rihs.org/mssinv/Mss629-3.htm| title = Elisha Reynolds Potter, Jr. Papers| publisher = Rhode Island Historical Society Manuscripts Division| accessdate = 2019-03-31}} External links{{CongBio|P000462}}
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