Law and Politics
- William Porter (attorney-general) (1805–1880), attorney-general of the Cape Colony
- William Field Porter (1784–1869), New Zealand politician
- William J. Porter (1914–1988), American diplomat; former ambassador to Canada and Saudi Arabia, among others
- William Archer Porter (1825–1890), British lawyer and educationist
- William Haldane Porter (died 1944), British civil servant
- William Porter (MP)
- William Porter (fl.1388), MP for Southwark (UK Parliament constituency)
- William Porter (died 1437), MP for Cambridgeshire (UK Parliament constituency)
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