William L. Storrs
William Lucius Storrs ( born March 25, 1795 in Middletown, Connecticut, † June 25, 1861 in Hartford, Connecticut ) was an American politician. Between 1829 and 1833, and from 1839 to 1840, he represented the state of Connecticut in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Career
After primary school, William Storrs visited until 1814 the Yale College. After a subsequent study of law and its made in 1817 admitted to the bar he began in Middletown to work in his new profession. In the 1820s he joined the opposition to Andrew Jackson and his Democratic Party, founded in 1828. Storrs was initially a member of the short-lived National Republican Party and later the Whig Party. Between 1827 and 1829 he was a member of the House of Connecticut.
In the congressional elections of 1828, which were held all across the state of Connecticut, he was a candidate for the Nationalrepublikaner the sixth deputy seat of his state as the successor to Elisha Phelps in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC selected. After a re-election in 1830 he was able to complete between 4 March 1829 to March 3, 1833 the two terms in Congress, who were overshadowed by the Nullifikationskrise with the State of South Carolina and the Bank's policy of President Jackson. In 1832 Storrs gave up another candidacy. For this he was in 1834 again elected to the House of Representatives from Connecticut, whose president he was this year. In the congressional elections of 1838, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives again for the Whigs in the second district of Connecticut. There he entered on March 4, 1839, the successor of Samuel Ingham.
Storrs exercised its mandate in Congress but only until June 1840. Then he stepped back to become an Associate Justice on the Connecticut Supreme Court. This office he held until 1856. This year he became the presiding judge ( Chief Justice ) appointed for that court. This office he held until his death in 1861. During the years 1841 to 1846 Storrs also taught at Wesleyan University in Middletown the tray law. The same job he held from 1846-1847 at Yale College. William Storrs died on June 25, 1861 in Hartford and was also buried there.