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Albert Gallatin Jewett (November 27, 1802 – April 4, 1885) was the American Chargé d'affaires to Peru from 1845 through 1847, under the administration of President James K. Polk.

Born in Pittston, Maine in 1802 and a graduate of Colby College in Waterville, Jewett practiced law in Bangor, Maine from 1829 until leaving for Peru in 1845. He served as Penobscot County 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.

References

1. General Catalogue [of the Officers and Graduates] of Colby College

History of Penobscot County, Maine (Cleveland, 1882), p. 211

v t e United States ambassadors to Peru
Chargé d'Affaires	Cooley Larned Thornton Pickett Bryan Jewett Clay
Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary	Clay Robinson Hovey Settle Thomas Gibbs Christiancy Hurlbut Phelps Buck Hicks McKenzie Dudley Combs Howard McMillin
Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary	Gonzales Poindexter Moore Dearing Steinhardt Norweb White Pawley Cooper Tittmann Briggs Achilles Chapin Loeb Jones Belcher Dean Shlaudeman Corr Ortiz Jordan Watson Quainton Brayshaw (a.i.) Adams Jett Hamilton Dawson Struble McKinley Likins Nichols Urs Kenna Syptak-Ramnath

• 1802 births
• 1885 deaths
• Ambassadors of the United States to Peru
• Politicians from Bangor, Maine
• Politicians from Belfast, Maine
• People from Pittston, Maine
• Colby College alumni
• Mayors of places in Maine
• 19th-century American diplomats
• County district attorneys in Maine