Bellamy Storer (August 28, 1847November 12, 1922) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a

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from

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from 1891 to 1895. He later served as a diplomat for the

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, serving as minister or ambassador to

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, and

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Biography

Storer was born in

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, the son of

Bellamy Storer (1796–1875) Bellamy Storer (March 26, 1796June 1, 1875) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio, father of Bellamy Storer (1847). Born in Portland in Massachusetts' District of Maine, Storer attended private schools in his native city. He entered Bowdoin Co ...

and uncle of

Nicholas Longworth Nicholas Longworth III (November 5, 1869 – April 9, 1931) was an American politician who became Speaker of the United States House of Representatives. He was a Republican. A lawyer by training, he was elected to the Ohio Senate, where he initi ...

. Storer attended the common schools in Cincinnati and Dixwell's private Latin school, Boston, Massachusetts. He was graduated from

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in 1867 and from the law school of

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(now

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) in 1869. He was

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in 1869 and commenced practice in Cincinnati. He served as assistant

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for the southern district of Ohio in 1869 and 1870. Storer's wife,

Maria Longworth Nichols Storer Maria Longworth Nichols Storer (March 20, 1849 – April 30, 1932) was the founder of Rookwood Pottery of Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, a patron of fine art and the granddaughter of the wealthy Cincinnati businessman Nicholas Longworth (patriar ...

, was the founder of

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located in

. They married in 1886. Her Cincinnati connections were a great boost to Storer's standing in the city.

Congress

Storer was elected as a

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to the Fifty-second and Fifty-third Congresses (March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1895). He was not a candidate for renomination in 1894, but resumed the practice of law. He was

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in 1897.

Diplomatic posts

Storer promoted

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in his campaigns for

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and

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. This service was remembered in McKinley's assignment of him to be

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from May 4, 1897, to April 11, 1899. He was later assumed the same post for

from April 12, 1899, to September 26, 1902. His friend

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then assigned him as the ambassador to

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from 1903 to March 1906. Although Roosevelt asked Storer to intervene with the

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regarding a

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for

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, Roosevelt later had second thoughts, and Storer's activity on Ireland's behalf led to his dismissal from the Austria-Hungary post. Storer converted to

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from Episcopal Church theodorerooseveltcenter.org
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Last years and death

Afterwards Storer resumed the practice of law. He died in

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, November 12, 1922, and was interred in Le Cimetiere Neuf in

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