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Marshall Jewell
Marshall Jewell
25th United States Postmaster General
	In office; August 24, 1874 – July, 1876
Preceded by	James William Marshall
Succeeded by	James Noble Tyner
8th Chairman of the Republican National Committee
	In office; 1879–1880
Preceded by	J. Donald Cameron
Succeeded by	Dwight M. Sabin
Personal details
Born	October 20, 1825; Winchester, New Hampshire, U.S.
Died	February 10, 1883 (aged 57); New Haven, Connecticut, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Profession	Politician

Marshall Jewell (October 20, 1825 – February 10, 1883) was a U.S. politician. He was the Governor of Connecticut between 1869 and 1870, and again from 1871 until 1873. Born in 1825 in Winchester, New Hampshire, he was made Minister to Russia by President Ulysses S. Grant from 1873 to 1874, but after only seven months in Russia, he left. Jewell then became the Postmaster General between 1874 and 1876. He was also a presidential candidate at the 1876 Republican National Convention and was the chairman of the Republican National Committee from 1880 until 1883. He died in 1883 in New Haven, Connecticut, and was buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery in Hartford, Connecticut.^[1]

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Political offices
Preceded by James E. English	Governor of Connecticut 1869– 1870	Succeeded by James E. English
Preceded by James E. English	Governor of Connecticut 1871– 1873	Succeeded by Charles R. Ingersoll
Preceded by James W. Marshall	United States Postmaster General August 24, 1874– July 1876	Succeeded by James N. Tyner
Party political offices
Preceded by J. Donald Cameron	Chairman of the Republican National Committee 1880– 1883	Succeeded by Dwight M. Sabin

v t e United States Postmasters General
Confederal	Franklin Bache Hazard
Federal	Osgood Pickering Habersham G. Granger Meigs McLean
Cabinet level Post Office Department	Barry Kendall Niles F. Granger Wickliffe Johnson Collamer Hall Hubbard Campbell A. Brown Holt King Blair Dennison Randall Creswell Marshall Jewell Tyner Key Maynard James Howe Gresham Hatton Vilas Dickinson Wanamaker Bissell Wilson Gary Smith Payne Wynne Cortelyou Meyer Hitchcock Burleson Hays Work New W. Brown Farley Walker Hannegan Donaldson Summerfield Day Gronouski O'Brien Watson Blount
U.S. Postal Service	Blount Klassen Bailar Bolger Carlin Casey Tisch Frank Runyon Henderson Potter Donahoe Brennan DeJoy

v t e Cabinet of President Ulysses S. Grant (1869–1877)
Vice President	Schuyler Colfax (1869–1873) • Henry Wilson (1873–1875)
Secretary of State	Elihu B. Washburne (1869) • Hamilton Fish (1869–1877)
Secretary of the Treasury	George S. Boutwell (1869–1873) • William A. Richardson (1873–1874) • Benjamin Bristow (1874–1876) • Lot M. Morrill (1876–1877)
Secretary of War	John A. Rawlins (1869) • William W. Belknap (1869–1876) • Alphonso Taft (1876) • J. Donald Cameron (1876–1877)
Attorney General	Ebenezer R. Hoar (1869–1870) • Amos T. Akerman (1870–1871) • George H. Williams (1871–1875) • Edwards Pierrepont (1875–1876) • Alphonso Taft (1876–1877)
Postmaster General	John Creswell (1869–1874) • James W. Marshall (1974) • Marshall Jewell (1874–1876) • James N. Tyner (1876–1877)
Secretary of the Navy	Adolph E. Borie (1869) • George M. Robeson (1869–1877)
Secretary of the Interior	Jacob D. Cox (1869–1870) • Columbus Delano (1870–1875) • Zachariah Chandler (1875–1877)