Daniel T. Jewett

Daniel T. Jewett

Daniel Tarbox Jewett (born September 14, 1807 in Pittston , Kennebec County , Maine , †  October 7, 1906 in St. Louis , Missouri ) was an American politician of the Republican Party .

After attending a secondary school located Jewett wrote on the Colby College in Waterville one before it in 1830 at Columbia College in New York City graduate and at the Harvard Law School 's Law made Accounts. He was inducted into the Bar Association and began practicing in Bangor . From 1834 to 1837 he was the city solicitor there .

Between 1850 and 1853, Daniel Jewett and his brother ran a steamship line on the Río Chagres on the Isthmus of Panama . He later worked as a prospector in California for two years before returning to Bangor and resuming work as a lawyer.

In 1857 the company moved to St. Louis. There Jewett became politically active; so in 1866 he was a member of the Missouri House of Representatives . In 1870 he was appointed to succeed the resigned US Senator Charles D. Drake . He belonged to the Senate only in a provisional capacity from December 19, 1870 to January 20, 1871 and refrained from standing up for the regular by-election. Instead, he returned to his Missouri law firm.

Daniel T. Jewett died in October 1906 at the age of 99. He had previously been the oldest living former US Senator for more than five years.

Web links

• Daniel T. Jewett in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)