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{{Short description|British politician}}
{{Other people|John Potts}}
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{{Use British English|date=May 2017}}
{{Infobox officeholder
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| honorific-suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100|MP}}
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| birth_date = {{Birth date|df=yes|1861|8|12}}
| birth_name = John Samuel Potts
| birth_place = [[Bolton]]
| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1938|4|28|1861|8|12}}
|death_place = [[Barnsley]]
| office = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Barnsley (UK Parliament constituency)|Barnsley]]
| term_start = 1922
| term_end = 1931
| predecessor = [[Sir Joseph Walton, 1st Baronet|Joseph Walton]]
| successor = [[Richard John Soper]]
| office1 = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Barnsley (UK Parliament constituency)|Barnsley]]
| term_start1 = 1935
| term_end1 = 1938
| predecessor1 = [[Richard John Soper]]
| successor1 = [[Frank Collindridge]]
| parliament = United Kingdom
| party = [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]]
| spouse =
| children =
| nationality = [[United Kingdom|British]]
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'''John Samuel Potts''' (12 August 1861
Born in [[Bolton]], [[Lancashire]], Potts had started work at Durham Colliery at the age of eleven.<ref name="TCG">[http://www.dmm.org.uk/news19/9380506o.htm Obituary] The Colliery Guardian; 6 May 1938, Page: 842, Column: 2</ref> He was a checkweighman at the Hemsworth Colliery, [[Yorkshire]], for 25 years.<ref name= "WDP">{{cite news |title=DEATH OF LABOUR M.P. FOR BARNSLEY |work=Western Daily Press |date=29 April 1938 |access-date=3 November 2015 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000513/19380429/074/0008| via = [[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref> At the [[1897 Barnsley by-election|Barnsley by-election of 1897]], Potts supported the [[Liberal Party (UK)|Liberal Party]] candidate [[Sir Joseph Walton, 1st Baronet|Joseph Walton]]. While chairing a Liberal election meeting during this by-election, Potts said in the presence of Walton that he would favour a labour party at a time when state payment of MPs, and of official election expenses would enable working men to be maintained in Parliament but until then, "the Liberal Party was the working man’s only hope".<ref name="rubinstein">[[David Rubinstein (social historian)|David Rubinstein]], "[http://www.whatnextjournal.org.uk/Pages/History/Barnsley.html The Independent Labour Party and the Yorkshire Miners: The Barnsley By-Election of 1897]", ''What Next?''; earlier published in ''[[International Review of Social History]]'', Vol.23, 1978.</ref> In 1905, Potts switched sides, and began working with the [[Independent Labour Party]], against both Walton and the leadership of the [[Yorkshire Miners' Association]] (YMA).<ref name="rubinstein" /> Ten years later, Potts was elected as treasurer of the YMA,<ref name= "YPLI">{{cite news |title=YORKSHIRE MINERS' TREASURER |work=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |date=30 August 1915 |access-date=3 November 2015 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19150830/138/0007| via = [[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref> and became a member of the executive committee of the [[Miners' Federation of Great Britain]].<ref name="TCG"/> He kept these positions until he was elected as the Member of Parliament for [[Barnsley (UK Parliament constituency)|Barnsley]] at the [[1922 United Kingdom general election|1922 general election]],<ref name= "HDM">{{cite news |title=YORKSHIRE MINERS' M.P. DEAD |work=Hull Daily Mail |date=28 April 1938 |access-date=3 November 2015 |url=http://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000324/19380428/005/0001| via = [[British Newspaper Archive]]|url-access=subscription }}</ref> when payment of MPs and election expenses had been enacted.<ref name="rubinstein" /> Potts retained the seat at three further elections in the 1920s. When Labour split at the [[1931 United Kingdom general election|1931 general election]] over [[Ramsay MacDonald]]'s formation of a [[National Government 1931-1935|National Government]], he narrowly lost his seat to the [[National Liberal Party (UK, 1931)|National Liberal]] candidate [[Richard John Soper]].<ref name="TCG"/>
Potts was comfortably re-elected at the [[1935 United Kingdom general election
==References==
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* {{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig
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| title = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Barnsley (UK Parliament constituency)|Barnsley]]
| years = [[1922 United Kingdom general election
| before = Sir [[Sir Joseph Walton, 1st Baronet|Joseph Walton]]
| after = [[Richard John Soper]]
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| title = [[Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)|Member of Parliament]] for [[Barnsley (UK Parliament constituency)|Barnsley]]
| years = [[1935 United Kingdom general election
| before = [[Richard John Soper]]
| after = [[Frank Collindridge]]
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