Harvey Jewell was a U.S. politician

Politician

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 who served as the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1868 to 1871. He was born in Winchester, New Hampshire

Winchester, New Hampshire

Winchester is a town in Cheshire County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 4,341 at the 2010 census. The primary settlement in the town, where 1,733 people resided at the 2010 census, is defined by the U.S. Census Bureau as the Winchester census-designated place...

 on May 26, 1820, the first of ten children born to Pliny and Emily Alexander Jewell. His younger brother, Marshall Jewell

Marshall Jewell

Marshall Jewell was a U.S. political figure. He served as the 44th and 46th Governor of Connecticut between 1869 and 1870, and again from 1871 until 1873. Born in 1825 in Winchester, New Hampshire, he was first appointed by President Ulysses S. Grant as Minister to Russia from 1873 to 1874, but...

 (1825-1883) would later be elected Governor of Connecticut and would serve as President Grant's U.S. Postmaster-General.

He graduated from Dartmouth University

Dartmouth University

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 in 1844. He moved to Boston, Massachusetts in 1847 where he began his legal career and became active in local and state politics. He wed Susan A. Bradley on December 26, 1849. He was originally a Whig

Whig Party (United States)

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 until the dissolution of the party in the 1850s and later became a Republican

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. In 1861 he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives

Massachusetts House of Representatives

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 and was re-elected for the 1862 session. He returned again to serve from 1866 until 1871, serving his last four 1-year terms as Speaker. He acquired a reputation for "able and impartial rulings." After his retirement from the general court, he served on the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims from 1875-76.

At his residence on Beacon Street in Boston, he owned "a magnificent library, stored with the choicest and most valuable gems of literature." He was an enthusiastic fisherman, and an expert in the capture of striped bass off the rocks at Swampscott, Massachusetts

Swampscott, Massachusetts

Swampscott is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States located 15 miles up the coast from Boston in an area known as the North Shore. The population is 13,787...

, where he had a summer cottage.

He died in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 61 on December 8, 1881.

• The 1868 guide to the MA legislature indicated his birth on May 26 while an alumni sketch of Dartmouth stated June 26 (needs further research).