Nehemiah A. Potter was a member of the Los Angeles, California, Common Council for three terms between 1859 and 1863. He was president in the 1859–60 term.
Potter helped organize the first Presbyterian Church in Los Angeles, on the corner of New High and Temple streets, about 1855.
References
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- Chronological Record of Los Angeles City Officials,1850-1938, compiled under direction of Municipal Reference Library, City Hall, Los Angeles (March 1938, reprinted 1966). "Prepared ... as a report on Project No. SA 3123-5703-6077-8121-9900 conducted under the auspices of the Works Progress Administration."
- "Church History, No. 2: Another Chapter Which Goes Outside of Church Records," Los Angeles Times, July 9, 1882, page 3
- A "history of Los Angeles, published in 1880, by Messrs. Thompson & West," quoted in "Church History, No. 3," Los Angeles Times, July 11, 1882, page 3
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