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Permanent LinkRepresentative John Andrew Storey View All Years
JOHN A. STOREY, banker, jurist and legislator, died at Des Moines, Iowa, October 7, 1948; born on a farm in Armstrong county, Pennsylvania, April 13, 1851; graduated from Washington and Jefferson college, Washington, Pennsylvania, in 1874; after teaching and studying law came to Greenfield, Iowa, in 1875, and admitted to the Iowa bar in 1876; practiced law until 1905; first elected to Iowa house of representatives in 1883, serving in the Twentieth and Twenty-first General Assemblies from Adair county; elected presidential elector in 1884, and delegate to the Republican national convention in 1900 from the Ninth district; appointed district judge of the Fifth judicial district in 1895, and became special assistant attorney general of the United States in 1899 and 1900; moved to Omaha in 1900 becoming prominent in the bar of that city, then in 1905 to Indianola, Iowa, where he engaged in banking; elected in 1921 as representative from Warren county, serving in the Thirty-ninth and Fortieth General Assemblies; in later years resided with his son, John A. Storey, Jr., 4429 Kingman blvd., Des Moines, in addition to whom he is survived by a daughter, Mrs. Dorothy S. Watson, Roanoke, Virginia; and at the time of his death was the oldest in early legislative service of surviving members of the Iowa Pioneer Lawmakers association.