October 29, 1923 - June 6, 1987
San Jose Mercury News (CA) - Saturday, June 6, 1987
Deceased Name: HAROLD JEWETT, 64, EX-ASSISTANT D.A., U.S. COMMISSIONER 10/29/23 – 6/6/87
Harold W. Jewett Jr., a former assistant Alameda County district attorney, died Thursday. He was 64.
Jewett, a Piedmont resident, was named a U.S. commissioner for the Northern District of California in 1956, serving until 1971.
He served in World
War II as an Army Air Force bombardier- navigator in the Mediterranean
and Italy, and won an Air Medal with three clusters and three
Presidential Citations.
After the war,
Jewett joined the Alameda County district attorney's office, rising in
rank to senior trial deputy. Jewett resigned in 1955 to enter private
law practice and served as General Counsel for the Oakland Tribune..
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