Bellamy Storer (politician, 1847)

Bellamy Storer (born August 28, 1847 in Cincinnati , Ohio , † November 12, 1922 in Paris , France ) was an American diplomat and politician of the Republican Party . From 1891 to 1895 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 Cincinnati, the son of his father of the same name . He attended his hometown public schools and the private Dixwell Latin School in Boston . In 1867 he graduated from Harvard University , 1869 from the University of Cincinnati . He was admitted to the bar and was then Deputy United States Attorney for the Southern District of Ohio from 1869 to 1870 . He then worked as a lawyer in Cincinnati. In 1891 he was elected to the US House of Representatives for the 1st District of Ohio. There he represented the interests of his district until 1895. He did not stand for re-election, but was again active as a lawyer. In 1897 he was US Deputy Secretary of State .

From May 4, 1897 to April 11, 1899, he was the US envoy to Belgium . In Spain he was ambassador from April 12, 1899 to September 26, 1902, immediately afterwards he became ambassador to Austria-Hungary until March 1906 as the successor to Robert Sanderson McCormick . He returned to his profession and died in Paris in 1922. His body was buried in Marvejols .

Web links

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