Biography
Jewett was born in Canterbury, Connecticut to Luther and Betsey Daniel Jewett. He graduated from Dartmouth College, A.B., in 1795. He studied medicine and began to practice in Putney, Vermont in 1800. In 1810, Jewett received his M.B. from Dartmouth.
Jewett was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives. He was elected as a Federalist to the Fourteenth Congress and served from March 4, 1815 to March 3, 1817. After leaving Congress, Jewett moved to St. Johnsbury and studied theology. He was ordained as a pastor of the Congregation Church and Society and officiated in Newbury from 1821 to 1828. Jewett returned to St. Johnsbury and published the Farmer’s Herald from 1828 to 1832, and the Free Mason’s Friend from 1830 to 1832.
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