Harvey Jewell

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Harvey Jewell

| image = 1862 Harvey Jewell Massachusetts House of Representatives.png

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| office = Speaker of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives
Worcester, Massachusetts

| term_start = 1868

| term_end = 1871

| predecessor = James M. Stone

| successor = John E. Sanford

| office2 = Member of the
Massachusetts House of Representatives

| term_start2 = 1861

| term_end2 = 1871

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| party = {{Plainlist|

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| birth_date = {{Birth date|1820|05|26}}

| birth_place = Winchester, New Hampshire

| death_date = {{death date and age|1881|12|8|1820|5|26}}

| death_place = Boston, Massachusetts

| resting_place = Mount Auburn Cemetery

| alma_mater = Dartmouth College, 1844

| profession = Lawyer

| spouse = {{Marriage|Susan A. Bradley|December 26, 1849}}

| children =

| signature = Signature of Harvey Jewell (1820–1881).png

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Harvey Jewell (May 26, 1820 – December 8, 1881) was a U.S. lawyer and politician who served as the Speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives from 1868 to 1871.

Biography

Jewell was born in Winchester, New Hampshire on May 26, 1820, the first of ten children born to Pliny and Emily Alexander Jewell.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-boston-globe-death-of-hon-harvey-je/127815316/ |title=Death of Hon. Harvey Jewell |newspaper=The Boston Globe |page=4 |date=1881-12-09 |access-date=2023-07-07 |via=Newspapers.com}}{{Cite book |url=https://archives.lib.state.ma.us/bitstream/handle/2452/795806/1868-House-01-Appendix%20.pdf |title=Annual Register of the Executive and Legislative Departments of the Government of Massachusetts |chapter=Appendix |number=1 |page=693 |date=1868 |access-date=2023-07-07}}{{Efn|Some sources give his birthdate as June 26.{{Cite book |url=https://archive.org/details/professionalindu01davi/page/564/mode/1up |title=Professional and Industrial History of Suffolk County, Massachusetts |volume=I |editor-first=William T. |editor-last=Davis |publisher=The Boston History Company |pages=564–565 |date=1894 |access-date=2023-07-07 |via=Internet Archive}}{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sju7AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA350 |title=Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College |first=George T. |last=Chapman |page=350 |date=1867 |access-date=2023-07-07 |via=Google Books}}}} His younger brother, Marshall Jewell (1825-1883) would later be elected Governor of Connecticut and would serve as President Grant's United States Postmaster General.

Jewell graduated from Dartmouth College in 1844. He moved to Boston, Massachusetts, in 1847 where he began his legal career and became active in local and state politics. He wed Susan A. Bradley on December 26, 1849.{{Cite book |last1=Jewell |first1=Pliny |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IChWAAAAMAAJ |title=The Jewell Register |last2=Jewell |first2=Joel |publisher=Case, Lockwood and Company |year=1860 |isbn=9780598390318 |pages=65}}

Jewell was originally a Whig until the dissolution of the party in the 1850s and later became a Republican. In 1861 he was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives and was re-elected for the 1862 session. He returned again to serve from 1866 until 1871, serving his last four 1-year terms as Speaker. Jewell acquired a reputation for "able and impartial rulings." After his retirement from the general court, he served on the Court of Commissioners of Alabama Claims from 1875 to 1876.

At his residence on Beacon Street in Boston, he owned "a magnificent library, stored with the choicest and most valuable gems of literature." Jewell was an enthusiastic fisherman, and an expert in the capture of striped bass off the rocks at Swampscott, Massachusetts, where he had a summer cottage.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oHoUAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA124 |title=Old Park Street and Its Vicinity |first=Robert Means |last=Lawrence |publisher=Houghton Mifflin Company |page=124 |date=1922 |access-date=2023-07-07 |via=Google Books}}

Jewell died at his home in Boston at the age of 61 on December 8, 1881. He was buried at Mount Auburn Cemetery.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/article/hartford-courant-funeral-of-the-hon-har/127816212/ |title=Funeral of the Hon. Harvey Jewell |newspaper=Hartford Courant |place=Boston, Massachusetts |page=3 |date=1881-12-11 |publication-date=1881-12-12 |access-date=2023-07-07 |via=Newspapers.com}}