Charles C. Van Zandt

Career In 1855, Van Zandt was elected City Solicitor of Newport and was chosen clerk of the Rhode Island House of Representatives. In 1857, he was himself elected to the House. The following year, he became Speaker of the House. He was a State Senator from 1869 to 1870. The widow of Charles Potter of Providence, she was a descendant of Deputy Governor John Greene Jr. and John Greene, an early settler of the Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations who was one of the 12 original proprietors of Providence and a co-founder of the town of Warwick. From her first marriage, she was the mother of Charles Potter III. Together, they lived in an elegant Greek Revival style house on Pelham Street in Newport.

He died in 1894 and was interred at Island Cemetery, Newport, Rhode Island.