Bellamy Storer (1796–1875)

Bellamy Storer
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Ohio's 1st district
In office
March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837
Preceded by Robert Todd Lytle
Succeeded by Alexander Duncan
Personal details
Born (1796-03-26)March 26, 1796
Portland, Maine
Died June 1, 1875(1875-06-01) (aged 79)
Cincinnati, Ohio
Resting place Spring Grove Cemetery
Political party Anti-Jacksonian
Children Bellamy Storer
Alma mater Bowdoin College

Bellamy Storer (March 26, 1796 – June 1, 1875) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, father of Bellamy Storer (1847).

Born in Portland, Maine, then a part of Massachusetts, Storer attended private schools in his native city. He entered Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Maine, in 1809. He studied law in Boston. He was admitted to the bar in Portland in 1817 and commenced practice in Cincinnati, Ohio, the same year.

Storer was elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress (March 4, 1835 – March 3, 1837). He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress, taking a job as a professor in Cincinnati Law School 1855-1874. He was a Whig Presidential elector in 1844 for Clay/Frelinghuysen.[1] He was nominated by the Whigs in 1851 for the Ohio Supreme Court, but lost.[2] He served as judge of the superior court of Cincinnati from its organization in 1854 until 1872, when he resigned. He resumed the practice of law, and died in Cincinnati, Ohio, on June 1, 1875. He was interred in Spring Grove Cemetery.

He was a trustee of Ohio University beginning in 1866.[3]

Sources

  1. ↑ Taylor 1899 : 255
  2. ↑ Reed 1897 : 113-114
  3. ↑ Walker 1869 : 348

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U.S. House of Representatives
Preceded by
Robert Todd Lytle		 Member of the U.S. House of Representatives
from Ohio's 1st congressional district
1835–1837 		Succeeded by
Alexander Duncan
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