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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New YorkPOTTER, Clarkson Nott
(1825—1882)
POTTER, Clarkson Nott, a Representative from New York; born in Schenectady, N.Y., April 25, 1825; completed preparatory studies; graduated from Union College, Schenectady, N.Y.,1842; graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute as a civil engineer, 1843; served as a surveyor in Wisconsin in 1843; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1846 and commenced practice in New York City in 1847; elected as a Democrat to the Forty-first and to the two succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1875); declined to be a candidate for renomination to the Forty-fourth Congress in 1874; elected to the Forty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1877-March 3, 1879); chairman, Committee on Pacific Railroads (Forty-fifth Congress); declined to be a candidate for renomination to the Forty-sixth Congress in 1878; president of the Democratic New York state conventions in 1875 and 1877; delegate to the Democratic National Conventions in 1872 and 1876; unsuccessful candidate for lieutenant governor in 1879; trustee of Union College 1863-1882; president of the American Bar Association in 1881 and 1882; died on January 23, 1882, in New York City, N.Y.; interment in Vale Cemetery, Schenectady, N.Y.
Bibliography
Vazzano, Frank P. “The Louisiana Question Resurrected: The Potter Commission and the Election of 1876.” Louisiana History
16 (Winter 1975): 39-57.
Potter, Clarkson Nott. Address before the literary societies of Roanoke College, Va
. By Hon. Clarkson Nott Potter, LL. D., June 12, 1878. Pub. for the societies. Washington, D.C.: Printed by Darby & Duvall, 1878.
———. Address delivered before the New York Alpha of the Phi Beta Kappa, at Union College, Schenectady, June 30, 1868
. [Schenectady]: The Society, [1868].
———. Address delivered before the Tammany Society at Tammany Hall, New York, July 4th, 1873
. New York: D. Taylor, 1873.
———. Address to the graduating class of the class of the Albany Law School, May, 1873
. New York: S. Hamilton & Sons, 1873.
———. Civil service reform—the issues of the future
. Washington: Gibson Brothers, printers, 1872.
———. New Mexico. Representation in the Senate
. New York: S. Hamilton’s Sons, printers, [1874].
———. Our formalism in government: Address delivered at the 40th Annual Convention of the Psi Upsilon Society, held at Michigan University, June, 1880
. New York: J.L. Black, Printer, [1880].
———. Remarks of Hon. Clarkson N. Potter: Delivered at the celebration at Tammany Hall, July 4, 1871
. New York: D. Taylor, 1871.
———. Roger Brooke Taney. The annual address delivered before the American Bar Association at its fourth annual meeting, at Saratoga Springs, N.Y., August 18, 1881
. Philadelphia: E. C. Markley & Son, printers, 1881.
Vazzano, Frank P. “The Louisiana Question Resurrected: The Potter Commission and the Election of 1876.” Louisiana History
16 (Winter 1975): 39-57.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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