The Potters of Rhode Island
- Elisha Reynolds Potter (1764–1835), Rhode Island State Representative 1793-1796 1798-1808 1816-1817 1819-1835, U.S. Representative from Rhode Island 1796-1797 1809-1815. Father of Elisha R. Potter.
- Elisha R. Potter (1811–1882), Adjutant General of Rhode Island 1835-1836, Rhode Island State Representative 1838-1840, U.S. Representative from Rhode Island 1843-1845, Rhode Island State Senator 1847-1852 1861-1863, Rhode Island Commissioner of Public Schools 1849-1854, Justice of the Rhode Island Supreme Court 1868-1882. Son of Elisha Reynolds Potter.
Read more about this topic: List Of United States Political Families (P)
Famous quotes containing the word island:
“I candidly confess that I have ever looked on Cuba as the most interesting addition which could ever be made to our system of States. The control which, with Florida, this island would give us over the Gulf of Mexico, and the countries and isthmus bordering on it, as well as all those whose waters flow into it, would fill up the measure of our political well-being.”
—Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)