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William Wilson Potter
William Wilson
Potter
was a member of the U.S.
House of Representatives
from
Pennsylvania
.
William W. Potter was born at
Potters Mills, Pennsylvania
. He
completed
preparatory
studies in
Bellefonte, Pennsylvania
, and
graduated
from
Dickinson College
in
Carlisle, Pennsylvania
. 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
.