David Potter

Quick Facts

Full Name	David Potter
Occupation	Historian
Date Of Birth	Dec 6, 1910(1910-12-06)
Age	114
Date Of Death	February 18, 1971
Birthplace	Augusta
Country	United States
Birth City	Georgia
Horoscope	Sagittarius

David Potter Biography

David Potter is one of the most popular and richest Historian who was born on December 6, 1910 in Augusta, Georgia, United States.

In 1942 Yale published his dissertation as Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis and hired him as an assistant professor. As professor of history at Yale University in 1942–1961 and Coe Professor of American History at Stanford University in 1961–1971 he directed numerous dissertations and served on numerous editorial and professional boards. He also held the Walgreen Lectureship at the University of Chicago, and the Commonwealth Fund Lectureship at the University of London. Potter held the Harold Vyvyan Harmsworth Professor of American History at Oxford University in 1947. He was a pioneer in sponsoring the study of Women’s history.

Potter posthumously won the 1977 Pulitzer Prize for History for The Impending Crisis, 1848–1861 (1976), an in-depth narrative and analysis of the causes of the American Civil War. His main achievement was to put the history of the South in national perspective. He rejected the conflict model of Charles A. Beard and emphasized the depth of consensus on American values. He considered himself a conservative and was a prominent exponent of Consensus history.

David Potter Net Worth

David Potter is one of the richest Historian from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, David Potter 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

David Morris Potter (December 6, 1910 in Augusta, Georgia – February 18, 1971) was an American historian of the South. Born in Georgia, he graduated from the Academy of Richmond County, then from Emory University in 1932. Potter entered graduate school at Yale the same year, but he left four years later without finishing his dissertation. He taught at the University of Mississippi for two years, then taught at Rice University for another two before completing his dissertation in 1940 under Ulrich Bonnell Phillips.

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Sam Ranked on the list of most popular Historian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. David Potter celebrates birthday on December 6 of every year.