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John Fox Potter (1817-1899) was educated in the east and carved his idyllic homestead, โLake Side Farm,โ from the Wisconsin wilderness. A community leader he was at the founding of the Republican party, and the first Republican, an abolitionist โย Black Republican, to serve Wisconsin in the 1st Congressional District, a longtime Democratic stronghold. On the eve of the Civil War he battled the Southern โfire-eatersโ on the floor of Congress with his oratory and his fists. Potter โscalpedโ a fellow congressman; leveled a future Supreme Court jurist; and when challenged, under thecode duello, for insisting that fellow abolitionistโs views be heard โ his choice of weapons was the infamous, and barbarous, โbowie knife.โ He was a man of action, and a man of introspection. He hosted progressive thinkers at his rural lakeside retreat; including Thomas Wentworth Higginson a radical clergyman who authored the vows attacking the concept of coverture for feminist Lucy Stoneโs wedding, and carried on a โcorrespondenceโ with Emily Dickinson for decades. After a brief, but tumultuous, service as a Consul to the Canadas, he retired to his โLake Side Farmโ and hosted a group of social and political thinkers and activists from Milwaukee โ The Phantom Club.
$19.95
John Fox Potter (1817-1899) was educated in the east and carved his idyllic homestead, โLake Side Farm,โ from the Wisconsin wilderness. A community leader he was at the founding of the Republican party, and the first Republican, an abolitionist โย Black Republican, to serve Wisconsin in the 1st Congressional District, a longtime Democratic stronghold. On the eve of the Civil War he battled the Southern โfire-eatersโ on the floor of Congress with his oratory and his fists. Potter โscalpedโ a fellow congressman; leveled a future Supreme Court jurist; and when challenged, under thecode duello, for insisting that fellow abolitionistโs views be heard โ his choice of weapons was the infamous, and barbarous, โbowie knife.โ He was a man of action, and a man of introspection. He hosted progressive thinkers at his rural lakeside retreat; including Thomas Wentworth Higginson a radical clergyman who authored the vows attacking the concept of coverture for feminist Lucy Stoneโs wedding, and carried on a โcorrespondenceโ with Emily Dickinson for decades. After a brief, but tumultuous, service as a Consul to the Canadas, he retired to his โLake Side Farmโ and hosted a group of social and political thinkers and activists from Milwaukee โ The Phantom Club.
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