Born in Portland in Massachusetts' District of Maine, Storer attended private schools in his native city.

He was admitted to the bar in Portland in 1817 and commenced practice in Cincinnati, Ohio, the same year.

He declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1836 to the Twenty-fifth Congress, taking a job as a professor in Cincinnati Law School 1855–1874.

[2] He served as judge of the superior court of Cincinnati from its organization in 1854 until 1872, when he resigned.

[4] This article incorporates public domain material from the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress