Barrett Potter

Barrett Potter
Barrett Potter
Member of the Maine Senate; from the Cumberland County district
	In office; May 31, 1820 – January 1, 1822 Serving with Joseph Foxcraft & Jonathan Page
Member of the Executive Council of Massachusetts
	In office; June 3, 1819 – March 15, 1820
Personal details
Born	May 8, 1776; Lebanon, New Hampshire, U.S.
Died	November 16, 1865 (aged 89); Portland, Maine, U.S.
Resting place	Evergreen Cemetery, Portland
Spouse	Anne Storer (m. 1809; died 1821)
Children	Elizabeth Ann Potter; (b. 1810; died 1890); Mary Storer (Longfellow); (b. 1812; died 1835); Margaret Louisa (Thacher); (b. 1813; died 1901); Louisa Potter; (b. 1814; died 1814); John B. Potter; (b. 1815; died 1815); Frances L. Potter; (b. 1821; died 1822);
Relatives	John Potter (brother); John Fox Potter (nephew); Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (son-in-law);
Education	Dartmouth College
Profession	Lawyer

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Barrett Potter (May 8, 1776 – November 16, 1865) was an American lawyer and judge from Portland, Maine. He served one year on the Executive Council of Massachusetts (1819) in the year before the separation of the state of Maine. After Maine's statehood, he served in the first two terms of the Maine Senate (1820–1822). He then served 25 years as probate judge of Cumberland County, Maine, from 1822 until his retirement in 1847.

His daughter, Mary, was the first wife of poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

His brother, John Potter, was also a prominent lawyer and elected official in Maine. John Potter's son, Barrett's nephew, was John Fox "Bowie Knife" Potter, who represented southeast Wisconsin for three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives and became a minor abolitionist celebrity for standing up to a southern politician's duel threat in 1860.