Born in Middletown, Connecticut, Storrs was graduated from Yale College in 1814.
He studied law and was admitted to the bar in Whitestown, New York, in 1817.
Storrs was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-sixth Congress and served from March 1839 until his resignation in June 1840.
He was appointed associate judge of the Connecticut Supreme Court in 1840 and promoted to chief justice in 1856.
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