Freeborn G. Jewett

Freeborn Garrettson Jewett (* August 4, 1791 in Sharon, Connecticut, † January 27, 1858 in Skaneateles, New York) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1831 and 1833 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Freeborn Garrettson Jewett was born about eight years after the end of the Revolutionary War in Litchfield County. He pursued an academic career. In 1815 he moved to Skaneateles. Jewett was Justice of the Peace in 1817. He studied law. After receiving his license to practice law in 1818 he began to practice in Skaneateles. Between 1824 and 1831 he was Guardianship and restructuring judge in Onondaga County. During this time he was in 1826 in the New York State Assembly. Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group.

In the congressional elections of 1830 for the 22nd Congress Jewett was the 23rd electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Jonas Earll Jr. on March 4, 1831. Since he gave up for reelection in 1832, he retired after the March 3, 1833 out of the Congress.

He worked in 1838 and 1839 as a guard in the prison at Auburn. In 1839 he was district attorney in Onondaga County. On March 5, 1845 he was appointed associate judge on the New York Supreme Court in 1847, he was elected Judge of the New York Court of Appeals in 1849 and re-elected, but he resigned in June 1853 returned for health reasons. Between 1847 and 1850 he held the post of Chief Justice held in this court. He died about three years before the outbreak of the civil war in Skaneateles and was then buried in the Lakeview Cemetery.