Joshua Jewett

Joshua Husband Jewett ( born September 30, 1815 in Deer Creek, Harford County, Maryland, † July 14 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, 1861) was an American politician. Between 1855 and 1859 he represented the state of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Joshua Jewett was the older brother of Hugh J. Jewett (1817-1898), who represented 1873-1874 the State of Ohio in Congress. He attended the common schools. After a subsequent law degree in 1836 and its recent approval as a lawyer, he started in Elizabethtown to work in this profession. At times he was prosecutor in Hardin County.

Jewett was a member of the Democratic Party. In the congressional elections of 1854 he was in the fifth electoral district of Kentucky in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington, DC chosen, where he became the successor of Clement S. Hill of the Whig party on March 4, 1855. After a re-election in 1856 he was able to complete up to March 3, 1859 two terms in Congress, who were overshadowed by the events and discussions that preceded the Civil War. From 1855 to 1857 Jewett was chairman of the Committee for the control of expenditures of the War Department; 1857-1859 he headed the Pension Committee.

In 1858, Joshua Jewett lost out to John Young Brown. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives, he practiced as a lawyer again. He died on July 14, 1861 in Elizabethtown and was also buried there.