Daniel Tarbox Jewett (September 14, 1807October 7, 1906) was a

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from

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in 1870 and 1871. Born in

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, he completed preparatory studies, attended

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, graduated from Columbia College in New York in 1830 and from the

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. He was admitted to the

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and practiced in

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; he was city solicitor from 1834 to 1837. From 1850 to 1853 he engaged with his brother in operating a

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line upon the

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. He moved to California and engaged in

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for two years, after which he returned to Bangor and practiced law. In 1857 he moved to

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and continued the practice of law; in 1866 he was a member of the

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. Jewett was appointed as a Republican to the U.S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Charles D. Drake and served from December 19, 1870, to January 20, 1871, when a successor was elected. He declined to be a candidate for election to the Senate to fill this vacancy and resumed the practice of law. Jewett died in St. Louis in 1906, and was buried at

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