Albert G. Jewett

Albert Gallatin Jewett (November 27, 1802 – April 4, 1885)[1] was the American Chargé d'Affaires to Peru from 1845 through 1846, under the administration of President James K. Polk

Born in Pittston, Maine in 1802 and a graduate of Colby College in Waterville, Jewett practiced law in Bangor, Maine from 1829 until leaving for Peru in 1845. He served as Penobscot County Attorney at the height of Bangor's prosperity as a lumber port, and built one of the city's largest Italianate-style houses (the Jewett-Stetson Mansion, since demolished) in what is now the Broadway Historic District. After serving two years in Peru 1845-47, Jewett toured Europe and eventually returned to re-settle in Belfast, Maine, south of Bangor, where he was elected mayor three times in the 1860s.

References
  1. General Catalogue [of the Officers and Graduates of Colby College]

History of Penobscot County, Maine (Cleveland, 1882), p. 211

Diplomatic posts
Preceded by
John R. Bryan		 United States Charge d'Affaires to Peru
4 August 1845–21 July 1847		 Succeeded by
John R. Clay
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