William L. Storrs

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William Lucius Storrs (born March 25, 1795 in Middletown , Connecticut , †  June 25, 1861 in Hartford , Connecticut) was an American politician . Between 1829 and 1833 and from 1839 to 1840 he represented the state of Connecticut in the US House of Representatives .

Career

After primary school, William Storrs attended Yale College until 1814 . After a subsequent law degree and his admission as a lawyer in 1817, he began to work in Middletown in his new profession. In the 1820s he joined the opposition to Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party, founded in 1828 . Storrs first became a member of the short-lived National Republican Party and later the Whig Party . Between 1827 and 1829 he was a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives .

In the Congressional elections of 1828, held nationwide in Connecticut, he was elected as a National Republican candidate for the sixth seat of his state to succeed Elisha Phelps in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC . After being re-elected in 1830, he was able to serve two terms in Congress between March 4, 1829 and March 3, 1833 , which were overshadowed by the nullification crisis with the state of South Carolina and the banking policy of President Jackson. In 1832 Storrs renounced another candidacy. For this he was re-elected to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1834, of which he became president that year. In the congressional election of 1838 he was re-elected to the US House of Representatives for the Whigs in the second district of Connecticut. There he took over from Samuel Ingham on March 4, 1839 .

Storrs only exercised his mandate in Congress until June 1840. He then resigned to become associate judge on the Connecticut Supreme Court . He held this office until 1856. In that year he was appointed Chief Justice of this court. He held this office until his death in 1861. From 1841 to 1846 Storrs also taught law at Wesleyan University in Middletown. The same job he held between 1846 and 1847 at Yale College. William Storrs died on June 25, 1861 in Hartford and was buried there.

Web links

  • William L. Storrs in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)
personal data
SURNAME Storrs, William L.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Storrs, William Lucius (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1795
PLACE OF BIRTH Middletown , Connecticut
DATE OF DEATH June 25, 1861
Place of death Hartford , Connecticut