Bellamy Storer (ambassador)

Bellamy Storer
United States Ambassador to Austria
In office January 3, 1903 – February 8, 1906
President	Theodore Roosevelt
Preceded by	Robert S. McCormick
Succeeded by	Charles Spencer Francis
United States Minister to Spain
In office June 16, 1899 – December 10, 1902
President	William McKinley Theodore Roosevelt
Preceded by	Stewart L. Woodford
Succeeded by	Arthur Sherburne Hardy
United States Minister to Belgium
In office July 21, 1897 – May 31, 1899
President	William McKinley
Preceded by	James S. Ewing
Succeeded by	Lawrence Townsend
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Ohio's 1st district
In office March 4, 1891 – March 3, 1895
Preceded by	Benjamin Butterworth
Succeeded by	Charles Phelps Taft
Personal details
Born	(1847-08-28)August 28, 1847 Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Died	November 12, 1922(1922-11-12) (aged 75) Paris, France
Resting place	Le Cimetiere Neuf, Marvejols, France
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Maria Longworth Nichols Storer
Alma mater	Harvard University Cincinnati Law School
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Bellamy Storer (August 28, 1847 – November 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 ambassador to Belgium, Spain, and Austria.

Storer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, the son of Bellamy Storer (1796–1875) and uncle of Nicholas Longworth. Storer attended the common schools in Cincinnati and Dixwell's private Latin school, Boston, Massachusetts. He was graduated from Harvard University in 1867 and from the law school of Cincinnati College (now University of Cincinnati College of Law) in 1869.

He was admitted to the bar in 1869 and commenced practice in Cincinnati. He served as assistant United States attorney for the southern district of Ohio in 1869 and 1870.

Storer's wife, Maria Longworth Nichols Storer, was the founder of Rookwood Pottery located in Cincinnati, Ohio. They married in 1886. Her Cincinnati connections were a great boost to Storer's standing in the city.^[1]

Storer was elected as a Republican 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 Assistant Secretary of State in 1897.

Storer promoted William McKinley in his campaigns for governor of Ohio and president of the United States.^[1] This service was remembered in McKinley's assignment of him to be Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Belgium^[1] from May 4, 1897, to April 11, 1899. He was later assumed the same post for Spain from April 12, 1899, to September 26, 1902. His friend Theodore Roosevelt then assigned him as the ambassador to Austria-Hungary from 1903 to March 1906.

Although Roosevelt asked Storer to intervene with the Pope regarding a cardinalate for John Ireland, Roosevelt later had second thoughts,^[1] and Storer's activity on Ireland's behalf led to his dismissal from the Austria-Hungary post.^[2] Storer converted to Roman Catholicism from Episcopal Church ^[3] in 1896.^[1]

Afterwards Storer resumed the practice of law. He died in Paris, France, November 12, 1922, and was interred in Le Cimetiere Neuf in Marvejols.

• Media related to Bellamy Storer (1847-1922) at Wikimedia Commons

• United States Congress. "Bellamy Storer (id: S000970)". Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
• Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). "Storer, Bellamy (diplomat)" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
•  This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress