Bellamy Storer (politician, 1796)

Bellamy Storer (born March 26, 1796 in Portland , Maine , † June 1, 1875 in Cincinnati , Ohio ) was an American politician of the United States Whig Party . From 1835 to 1837 he was a member of the House of Representatives of the United States for the first  congressional district of the state of Ohio.

biography

Bellamy Storer was born in Portland. There he attended private schools. In 1809 he graduated from Bowdoin College . He moved to Boston , where he Jura studied. In 1817 he was admitted to the bar. In the same year he moved to Cincinnati to open a law firm there.

In 1835 he was elected to the US House of Representatives as a representative of the 1st Congressional District. He served a term and then left Congress. He practiced as a lawyer again until 1854. He was appointed as a judge on the Cincinnati Higher Court. There he served until 1872. In 1855 he also took over a professorship at the University of Cincinnati . He held this professorship until 1874.

Storer died in Cincinnati in 1875 and was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery . His son of the same name also sat for the 1st congressional district in the House of Representatives.

Web links

• Bellamy Storer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
• Bellamy Storer in the database of Find a Grave (English)