Born in Sheffield in the Province of Massachusetts Bay, Dewey attended Yale College.

Dewey was elected as a Federalist to the Thirteenth Congress and served from March 4, 1813, until February 24, 1814, when he resigned, having been assigned to a judicial position.

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