# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/john-f-potter
# Generated: 2026-08-14T07:30:56.187Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/john-f-potter"
name: "John F. Potter"
slug: "john-f-potter"
description: "John Fox \"Bowie Knife\" Potter was an American lawyer, Radical Republican politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He served three terms in the U.S. House of Representatives, representing Wisconsin's 1st congressional district from 1857 to 1863. During the 37th U.S. Congress, he served as chair of the House Committee on Public Lands and helped shepherd the passage of the Homestead Act of 1862. In that same term, he was also chair of the House Select Committee on Loyalty of Federal Employees, which attempted to root out Confederate sympathizers from government; his activities in that role led to significant acrimony with Secretary of War Simon Cameron."
tagline: "American politician (1817-1899)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/John_F_Potter.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Politicians"
  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1817-05-11"
deathDate: "1899-05-18"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           38.78
  momentum:             0.6077348066298343
  historical:           5.473578666666667
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     35
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "جان اف. پوتر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A5%D9%81._%D8%A8%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "جون إف. بوتير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%AC%D9%88%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%81._%D9%BE%D9%88%D8%AA%D9%8A%D8%B1"
    title: "جون اف. پوتير"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Potter"
    title: "John F. Potter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Potter"
    title: "John F. Potter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Potter"
    title: "John F. Potter"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1414034"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump