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STORRS, Henry Randolph (1787-1837)

Anti-Jacksonian of New York

14th congressional district

Served in House 1817-1821, 1823-1831

Total roll-call votes cast: 682

Biography

Representative from New York; born in Middletown, Conn., September 3, 1787; was graduated from Yale College in 1804; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1807 and commenced practice in Champion, Jefferson County, N.Y.; later practiced in Whitesboro and Utica, N.Y.; elected as a Federalist to the Fifteenth and to the succeeding Congress (March 4, 1817-March 3, 1821); unsuccessful candidate for renomination in 1820; elected as an Adams-Clay Federalist to the Eighteenth Congress, reelected as an Adams candidate to the Nineteenth and to the succeeding Congress; reelected as an Anti-Jacksonian candidate to the Twenty-first Congress (March 4, 1823-March 3, 1831); chairman, Committee on Naval Affairs (Nineteenth Congress); one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1830 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against James H. Peck, United States judge for the district of Missouri; presiding judge of the court of common pleas of Oneida County 1825-1829; moved to New York City and practiced law; died in New Haven, Conn., July 29, 1837; interment in Grove Street Cemetery.
Courtesy of Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

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