Famous People with Name Sewell

Sewell Foster            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Sewell Foster: was a physician and political figure in Canada East.He served as surgeon to a militia battalion and was also coroner for the Bedford District and a justice of the peace in Shefford County. Foster also was a founder and served as administrator for the Shefford Academy in Frost Village. In 1841, he was elected to represent Shefford in the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada and was reelected in 1844. He served as a governor of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Lower Canada from 1847 to 1866.

Shane Sewell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Shane Sewell: is a Canadian professional wrestler and referee. He is perhaps best known for his stint in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as both a referee and wrestler. After being released from TNA, Sewell worked the June 25 tapings of Florida Championship Wrestling, b

Anthony Sewell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Anthony Sewell: was a professional "Old School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from 1978 to 1984. He was nicknamed "The Panther". He got the moniker jumping curbs in his neighborhood and neighborhood kids likened his jumping to that of a

Terrycina Andrea "Terri" Sewell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Terrycina Andrea "Terri" Sewell: is the U.S. Representative for Alabama's 7th congressional district. She is a member of the Democratic Party and the first black woman elected to Congress from Alabama. Sewell is the only Democrat in Alabama's seven-member Congressional delegation.

William Joyce Sewell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

William Joyce Sewell: was born in Castlebar, County Mayo, Ireland immigrating to the United States in 1851 where he worked in the merchant industry in Chicago, Illinois before moving to Camden, New Jersey in 1860. He became a Union Army officer during the American Civil War wh

Jonathan Sewell            Origin/Culture/Country: American

Jonathan Sewell: was a lawyer, judge and political figure in Lower Canada. In 1808, he was named chief justice for Lower Canada and became a member of the Executive Council. Later in 1808, he was appointed to the Legislative Council and was named speaker in 1809. Sewell supported a union of Upper and Lower Canada; however, in 1822, he opposed a legislative union because of the strong opposition to union in the province. In 1809, he published rules of practice for the Quebec Court of King's Bench and the Court of Appeals; James Monk published similar rules at Montreal. In 1814, the legislative assembly voted to impeach Sewell and Monk on the grounds that some of their rules of practice were actually legislation, the responsibility of the legislature. Sewell successfully defended himself against these charges in London. On the bench, he endorsed the use of civil law based on French traditions and criminal law modeled after English norms. Sewell resigned from the Executive Council in 1830 after the assembly requested that judges be excluded from serving on the council. He resigned from his position of chief justice in 1838 due to ill health.