Albert Gallatin Jewett (November 27, 1802 – April 4, 1885)General Catalogue [of the Officers and Graduates] of Colby College
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to Peru from 1845 through 1847, under the administration of President James K. Polk. Born in

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in 1802 and a graduate of Colby College in Waterville, Jewett practiced law in

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from 1829 until leaving for Peru in 1845. He served as

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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 representing the United States 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.

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