{{Short description|English lawyer and politician}} {{For|the American author who wrote under this name|Mildred Masterson McNeilly}} '''James Dewey''' was an English lawyer and politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1656 to 1659.

Dewey was the son and heir of James Dewey of Christchurch, Hampshire. He matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford on 20 November 1651 and was called to the bar at Middle Temple in 1656.<ref>[http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=117055 'Alumni Oxonienses, 1500-1714: Dabbe-Dirkin', Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714: Abannan-Kyte (1891), pp. 366-405. Date accessed: 3 November 2011]</ref> In 1656, he was elected Member of Parliament for Dorset in the Second Protectorate Parliament. He was elected MP for Wareham in 1659 for the Third Protectorate Parliament.<ref name=Willis>{{Cite Notitia Parliamentaria|converted=1|part=2|pages=229–239}}</ref>

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{{s-start}} {{s-par|en}} {{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Dorset | before= William Sydenham <br> John Bingham <br> Sir Walter Earle <br> John Fitzjames <br> John Trenchard <br> Henry Henley | with= William Sydenham | with2= John Bingham | with3= Robert Coker, John Fitzjames | with4= John Trenchard | years=1656 | after= Sir Walter Earle | after2= John Bingham }} {{succession box | title=Member of Parliament for Wareham | before= Not represented in Second Protectorate Parliament | with= Elias Bond | years=1659 | after= John Trenchard }} {{s-end}}

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