Luther Jewett
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Luther Jewett (December 24, 1772 - March 8, 1860) was a United States Representative from Vermont. He was born in Canterbury, Windham County, Connecticut. He was graduated from Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire in 1795. He studied medicine and practiced in Putney, Vermont.
Jewett was a member of the Vermont House of Representatives. He was elected as a Federalist to the Fourteenth Congress (March 4, 1815 - March 3, 1817). After leaving Congress, he moved to St. Johnsbury, Vermont. He studied theology and was ordained as a minister and officiated in Newbury, Vermont 1821-1828. He returned to St. Johnsbury and published the Farmer’s Herald 1828-1832 and the Free Mason’s Friend 1830-1832. He died in 1860 and was buried in Mount Pleasant Cemetery.
