Born in Santa Barbara, California, he attended the public schools and graduated from Stanford University in 1898. (The Storke Publications Building at Stanford is named for his family.)
He was editor and publisher of Santa Barbara News-Press and its predecessors; a rancher and citrus fruit grower; and postmaster of Santa Barbara from 1914 to 1921. He appointed on November 9, 1938, as a Democrat to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of William Gibbs McAdoo and served from November 9, 1938, to January 3, 1939; was not a candidate for election for the full term.
He returned home and resumed working in the newspaper business. He was a member of the board of regents of University of California from 1955 until 1960.
He died in Santa Barbara and is buried in Santa Barbara Cemetery.
The storks are related to the herons and ibises and are found in most of the warmer parts of the world.
Storks have long, broad, powerful wings; in flight they flap their wings or soar with their legs dangling and their long necks bent back in an S shape.
The only storks found in the Americas are the American wood stork, previously known as the wood ibis, a white bird about 4 ft (122 cm) long with a glossy greenish-fl tail, found in temperate and tropical regions; and the jabiru, of the tropics, with a white-and-fl body and naked fl head.
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