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 a high school visit, Jewett wrote one on the Colby College in Waterville before at Columbia College in New York City, he graduated in 1830 and received his law degree from Harvard Law School. He was admitted to the bar and began practicing in Bangor. From 1834 to 1837 he was there urban Solicitor.

Between 1850 and 1853 operating Daniel Jewett and his brother a steamship line on the Río Chagres on the Isthmus of Panama. Later he worked for two years as a gold prospector in California, before he returned to Bangor and then worked as a lawyer.

1857 he moved to St. Louis. There Jewett became politically active; he belonged in 1866 to the House of Representatives from Missouri. In 1870 he was appointed to succeed the retiring U.S. Senator Charles D. Drake. He served on the Senate only in provisional function of 19 December 1870 to 20 January 1871, and decided not to can be set up for the regular election. Instead, he returned to his law firm back in Missouri.

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