 Although he lost his sole attempt to become Boston's mayor (in 1909), Storrow served several terms on the Boston City Council and Boston School Committee, and was New England Fuel Administrator during World War I.Unlike many of his Boston Brahmin peers, Storrow rejected nativism and anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic and anti-immigrant prejudices.As its first president, he helped diversify the Boston Chamber of Commerce, as well as to establish a juvenile court.