STORRS, Henry Randolph, born in Middletown, Connecticut, 3 September, 1787; died in New Haven, Connecticut, 29 July, 1837. He was graduated at Yale in 1804, studied law, was admitted to the bar in 1807, and practised at Champion, Whitestone, and Utica, New York, serving for five years as judge in Oneida county. He was elected to congress as a Federalist from Utica, and served with re-elections from 6 December, 1819, till 3 March, 1831, except during the 17th congress. Mr. Storrs subsequently settled in New York city and attained a high rank at the bar. He was possessed of uncommon powers of discrimination, great logical exactness, and a ready and powerful elocution, and as a debater in congress was in the first rank. Several of his speeches have been published.--His brother, William Lucius, jurist, born in Middletown, Connecticut, 25 March, 1795; died in Hartford, Connecticut, 25 June, 1861, was graduated at Yale in 1814, and then studied law in White-stone, New York In 1817 he was admitted to the bar in New York, but soon returned to his native city and there followed his profession. He was elected to the state assembly in 1827-'9 and 1834, and was speaker during the last term. In 1829 he was chosen to congress as a Whig and served from 7 December, 1829, till 3 March, 1833, and again from 2 December, 1839, till June, 1840, when he resigned to accept the appointment of associate judge of the court of errors, and in 1857 was appointed chief justice. He held the professorship of law in Yale during 1846-'7, and the degree of LL.D. was conferred on him by Western Reserve in 1846. His decisions, which are regarded as exceedingly able, are published in the '"Connecticut Reports."