Orlando B. Potter

Orlando Bronson Potter ( born March 10, 1823 in Charlemont, Massachusetts, † January 2, 1894 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1883 and 1885 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Orlando Bronson Potter attended the district school, Williams College in Williamstown and the Dane Law School in Cambridge. He studied law. His admission to the bar he received in 1848 and then began practicing in Boston. He also worked as a producer. In 1853 he moved to New York, where he worked in agriculture. Politically, he was a member of the Democratic Party.

His candidacy in 1878 for the 46th Congress was unsuccessful. In the congressional elections of 1882 for the 48th Congress Potter was in the eleventh electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Roswell P. Flower on March 4, 1883. Since he gave up for reelection in 1884, he retired after March 3, 1885 from the Congress.

In 1884, Potter, an office building, which later became the present Empire Building was built. Between 1890 and 1894 he was a member of the Rapid Transit Commission of New York City. He died there on January 2, 1894 and was buried in Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn.