Robert L. D. Potter

Potter was born February 5, 1833, in Hillsdale, New York. At the age of nine, his family moved to Egremont, Massachusetts, where he received most of his primary education. He moved to Easton, Pennsylvania, at about age 20 to work as a tutor in the high school. About two years later, he resigned to attend Union Law School and read law in the offices of Andrew Horatio Reeder. He graduated in 1857 and moved to Wisconsin later that year, settling at Wautoma, in Waushara County. ==Political and legal career==

In 1860, he was elected district attorney for Waushara County, running on the Republican Party ticket. He was subsequently elected to two more terms as district attorney in 1866 and 1868. In 1872, Potter was elected to the Wisconsin State Senate, representing Wisconsin's 25th State Senate district—then comprising Marquette, Green Lake, and Waushara counties. Railroad companies bitterly resisted the regulation. ==Personal life and family==

Robert L. D. Potter married Emeline Bingham at Wautoma on February 5, 1861. ==Electoral history==

Wisconsin Senate (1872, 1874) ==References==