Biography:

Marshall Jewell was a businessman, Republican Governor of Connecticut, and Minister to Russia.

Jewell was born in 1825 in New Hampshire.  He owned a profitable tanning business which he inherited from his father. He entered politics in the 1860s and unsuccessfully ran for the US Senate in 1867.  The following year he was elected as the Governor of Connecticut and served two terms from 1869-1873.  In 1873, he served seven months as Minister to Russia during President Ulysses S. Grant’s administration.  He became postmaster general from 1874-1876 and Republican National Committee Chairman from 1880-1883.  Jewell died in Connecticut on February 10, 1883 from pneumonia.