David Potts, JR.

David Potts, JR.

David Potts, JR.

Photo credit:

Futhey, J. Smith and Gilbert Cope.  History of Chester County, Pennsylvania, with Genealogical and Biographical Sketches. Philadelphia: Louis H. Everts, 1881.

Sessions

Sessions Office Position District Party
1823-1824 Representative Federalist
1824-1825 Representative Federalist
1825-1826 Representative Federalist
Counties Chester

Biography

11/27/1794 - 06/01/1863


POTTS, David, Jr., a Representative from Chester County; born, November 27, 1794 in Chester County, Pa.; served, Pennsylvania Militia (War of 1812); attended, Pottstown Preparatory School; ironmaster; owner, Jefferson Furnace; owner, Warwick Furnace; elected, auditor, Chester County (1815); elected as a Federalist to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives for the 1823-1824, 1824-1825 and 1825-1826 terms; elected, United States Congress (1831-1839); died, June 1, 1863 in Warwick Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania; interred, Potts Family Cemetery, Coventryville, Chester County, Pennsylvania.

 

 

Archival Collections

 

David Potts, Jr., collection of slip bills from the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1823-1824, Ms. Coll. 1269, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Congressional Biography

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