Frederic Storm Explained

Frederic Storm
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State1:New York
District1:1st
Term Start1:March 4, 1901
Term End1:March 3, 1903
Preceded1:Townsend Scudder
Succeeded1:Townsend Scudder
State Assembly2:New York
District2:Queens County, 2nd
Term Start2:January 1, 1896
Term End2:December 31, 1896
Preceded2:James S. Fairbrother
Succeeded2:Harvey Stewart McKnight
Birth Date:July 2, 1844
Birth Place:Alsace, Kingdom of France
Death Place:Bayside, New York, U.S.
Party:Republican

Frederic Storm (July 2, 1844June 9, 1935) was a United States representative from New York. Born in Alsace in the Kingdom of France, he immigrated to the United States in 1846 with his parents, who settled in New York City. He attended the public schools of New York City and engaged in the cigar manufacturing business. He was a delegate to the New York State Constitutional Convention of 1894; and a member of the New York State Assembly (Queens Co., 2nd D.) in 1896. He was a member of the Queens County Republican committee from 1894 to 1900 and was three times its chairman. He was the founder of Flushing Hospital, and was elected as a Republican to the Fifty-seventh Congress, holding office from March 4, 1901, to March 3, 1903. He was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1902 to the Fifty-eighth Congress, and after leaving Congress engaged in banking in Bayside. He founded the Bayside National Bank in 1905 and was its president until his resignation in 1920. He resided in Bayside until his death in that city in 1935; interment was in Flushing Cemetery, Flushing, New York.