Background
Potter, William Wilson was born on December 18, 1792 in Potters Mills, Pennsylvania, United States.
United States representative lawyer politician
Potter, William Wilson was born on December 18, 1792 in Potters Mills, Pennsylvania, United States.
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.
Member United States House