Texas Legislators: Past & Present

Calhoun Landers Potter

Full Name: Calhoun Landers Potter
Birth date: March 6, 1854
Death date: April 29, 1905

Terms of Service

Senate, 27th ⁽⁴⁾ & 26th ⁽³⁾ Legislatures
1/10/1899 - 1/13/1903
Democrat
Senate President Pro Tempore, elected in the absence of the President and President Pro Tem 9/25/1901, 2nd C.S.
Senate, 22nd ⁽¹⁾ ⁽²⁾ ⁽⁵⁾ Legislature
1/13/1891 - 1/10/1893
Democrat

(1) 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.
(2) Calhoun S. Potter, Gainesville, Democrat. Biennial Report of the Secretary of State of the State of Texas: List of Senators and Representatives .
(3) 26th Legislature - Roll of Senators-elect, oath of office administered, 1/10/1899, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal .
(4) 27th Legislature - Roll of holdover Senators, 1/8/1901, pp. 1-2. Senate Journal .
(5) 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

Resolutions and Journal entries

29th Legislature, 1st C.S., 5/1/1905, p. 23. Resolutions - Memorial .

Photographs

Photograph. C.L. Potter, State Preservation Board
Photograph. C.L. Potter, State Preservation Board
Photograph. C.L. Potter, State Preservation Board

Other Resources

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, 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.
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) . Gainesville Houston
Biographical sketch, Calhoun L. Potter, pp. 396-397. The Encyclopedia of the New West 1881.
Biographical sketch, Calhoun L. Potter, pp. 60-61. The Twenty-Seventh Legislature and State Administration of Texas 1901.