George Popham Sewall (April 24, 1811 – December 30, 1881) was an American lawyer and member of the
Maine House of Representatives
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from
Old Town, Maine
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. Sewall was born in
Bath
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(at the time still part of
Georgetown),
Maine
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, the son of Joseph and Hannah Shaw Sewall.
Sewall was elected
Speaker of the Maine House of Representatives
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in 1851 - 1852.
He was appointed U.S. Collector of Customs for
Bangor, Maine
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in 1854. His great grandson,
Joseph Sewall
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, later became President of the
Maine Senate
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. His wife, Sydney Ellen Wingate, was the daughter of U.S. Representative
Joseph F. Wingate. Their son James Wingate Sewall started the forest engineering practice that became James W. Sewall Co. James W. was also an Adjunct Professor of Sanitary Engineering at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). George Sewall died in Old Town on December 30, 1881.
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Speakers of the Maine House of Representatives
1811 births
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