Bellamy Storer (March 26, 1796June 1, 1875) was a U.S. Representative from

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, father of

Bellamy Storer (1847) Bellamy Storer (August 28, 1847November 12, 1922) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from Ohio from 1891 to 1895. He later served as a diplomat for the United States, serving as minister or ambass ...

. Born in

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in Massachusetts'

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, Storer attended private schools in his native city. He entered

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in Brunswick in 1809. He studied law in Boston. He was

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in Portland in 1817 and commenced practice in

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, the same year. Storer was elected as an

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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

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1855–1874. He was a Whig

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in 1844 for

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/ Frelinghuysen. He was nominated by the Whigs in 1851 for the

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, but lost. Reed 1897 : 113-114 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

, on June 1, 1875. He was interred in

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. He was a trustee of

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beginning in 1866. Walker 1869 : 348 A bust of Storer was sculpted by

Moses Jacob Ezekiel Moses Jacob Ezekiel, also known as Moses "Ritter von" Ezekiel (October 28, 1844 – March 27, 1917), was an American sculptor who lived and worked in Rome for the majority of his career. Ezekiel was "the first American-born Jewish artist to r ...

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