Frederic Storm

Frederic Storm ( born July 2, 1844 in Alsace, France, † June 9, 1935 in Bayside, New York ) was an American politician. Between 1901 and 1903 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Frederic Storm was born in 1844 in France. Two years later his family immigrated to the United States and settled in New York City. In the same year the Mexican -American War broke out. Storm attended public schools in New York City and later worked in the cigar factory business. Politically, he was a member of the Republican Party. He took in 1894 at the Constitutional Convention of New York. The following year he was elected to the New York State Assembly. Between 1894 and 1900 he sat in the Queens County Republican Committee and had three times the chair. He was the founder of the Flushing Hospital. In the congressional elections of 1900, Storm was the first electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Townsend Scudder on March 4, 1901. In 1902 he suffered in his re-election bid a defeat and retired after March 3, 1903 from the Congress of. Then he went to the banking business in Bayside. Storm founded in 1905 Bayside National Bank and was, until his resignation in 1920 its president. He died on June 9, 1935 in Bayside and was then buried in the Flushing Cemetery, Flushing.