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Calhoun Landers Potter Full Name: Calhoun Landers Potter Date of birth: March 6, 1854 Date of death: April 29, 1905 Terms of Service Biographical Notes Committee Information Terms of Service top Chamber District Dates of Service Legislatures Party City/County Note Counties in District S 4 Jan 10, 1899 - Jan 13, 1903 27th (1) (2)   26th (3)   27th (1) (2)   Democrat Gainesville / Cooke Senate President Pro Tempore (27th)   Cooke, Grayson S 18 Jan 13, 1891 - Jan 10, 1893 22nd (4) (5) (6)   Democrat Gainesville / Cooke   Cooke, Grayson (1) 27th Legislature - Senate President Pro Tempore, elected in the absence of the President and President Pro Tem 9/25/1901, 2nd C.S. Senate Journal. (2) 27th Legislature - Roll of holdover Senators, 1/8/1901, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal. (3) 26th Legislature - Roll of Senators-elect, oath of office administered, 1/10/1899, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal. (4) 2-year term; entire Senate went up for reelection in 1892 due to redistricting. Act approved Apr. 19, 1892, 22nd Legislature, 1st C.S., ch. 20. Apportionment Laws of Texas, 1836-1950, 1950. (5) Calhoun S. Potter, Gainesville, Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives. (6) 22nd Legislature - 1/13/1891, p. 1, listed as new member in roll call: "The credentials of the new members were presented, and the following senators had the oath of office administered them by the president pro tem of the senate." Senate Journal.   Biographical Notes and Resources top Resolutions and Journal entries 29th Legislature, 1st C.S., 5/1/1905, p. 23. Resolutions - Memorial. Biographical Sketches C.L. Potter, birth date 3/6/1854, death date 4/29/1905, burial in Fairview Cemetery, Gainesville, Cooke County. Includes obituary in The Bowie Blade, Montague County, 1/3/1902. Find a Grave. Biographical sketch, Calhoun L. Potter, pp. 212-213. Born 3/6/1854 in Pontotoc County, Mississippi. Personnel of the Texas State Government with Sketches of Representative Men of Texas, 22nd Legislature, 1892. Obituary, "A Tribune to Senator Potter," "Funeral," The Daily Hesperian (Gainesville, Texas), 4/30/1905, p. 3, crediting Cooke County Library. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries). Obituary, Calhoun Landers Potter, "Potter Is Dead . . . Was A Lawyer of Ability and Had Served One Term as State Senator," The Houston Post, 4/30/1905, p. 5. Portal to Texas History (University of North Texas Libraries). Biographical sketch, Calhoun L. Potter, pp. 60-61. The Twenty-Seventh Legislature and State Administration of Texas, 1901. Photographs Photograph. C.L. Potter, 27th Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. C.L. Potter, 26th Legislature, State Preservation Board Photograph. C.L. Potter, 22nd Legislature, State Preservation Board Composite Photographs on Display in the Capitol 22nd session composite photo of Senate members (Senate chamber gallery, west wall. 3E.5). State Preservation Board. 26th session composite photo of Senate members (Senate chamber gallery, west wall. 3E.5). State Preservation Board. 27th session composite photo of Senate members (Senate chamber gallery, north wall. 3E.5). State Preservation Board. Committee Informationtop 27th R.S. - 1901 Educational Affairs   Internal Improvements (Chair)  Judiciary No. 1   Labor   Public Lands and Land Office   Public Printing   Rules (Chair)  Stock and Stock-Raising   26th R.S. - 1899 Educational Affairs   Judicial Districts   Judiciary No. 1   Privileges and Elections   Public Lands and Land Office (Chair)  Rules   Stock and Stock Raising   22nd R.S. - 1891 Education   Federal Relations (Chair)  Finance   Internal Improvements   Judicial Districts   Judiciary No. 1   Penitentiaries   Public Lands   Roads and Bridges   Towns, Cities and Corporations (Chair)

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