James Potter (baseball)
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James Potter (April 7, 1864 – April 15, 1934) was an American businessman who served as president of the Philadelphia Phillies from 1903 to 1904.
Potter was born in Savannah, Georgia on April 7, 1864, to John Hamilton and Alice Beirne (Steimbergen) Potter. His father was a United States Civil War veteran who served with the Confederate States Army. Potter was educated in Baltimore and at St. Paul's School in Concord, New Hampshire. He attended Princeton University, but left after his junior year. On June 4, 1885, he married Elizabeth Perkins Sturgis. They had three children; Elizabeth Sturgis, John Hamilton, and Robert Sturgis Porter.[1] On January 27, 1908, Elizabeth Sturgis Porter married Frank Polk.[2]