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	March 26, 1796 Portland, Maine
Died	June 1, 1875 (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

• Bellamy Storer at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Taylor, William Alexander; Taylor, Aubrey Clarence (1899). Ohio statesmen and annals of progress: from the year 1788 to the year 1900 ... 1. State of Ohio. p. 255.
• Reed, George Irving; Randall, Emilius Oviatt; Greve, Charles Theodore, eds. (1897). Bench and Bar of Ohio: a Compendium of History and Biography 1. Chicago: Century Publishing and Engraving Company. pp. 113–114.
• Walker, Charles M (1869). History of Athens County, Ohio And Incidentally of the Ohio Land Company and the First Settlement of the State at Marietta etc. Robert Clarke & Co. pp. 346–348.

External links

• Bellamy Storer at Find a Grave

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