Please answer the following question: What key details about joseph sewall  can be extracted from the following bio?  Bio: joseph sewall -lrb- december 17 , 1921 -- november 23 , 2011 -rrb- was an american politician and businessperson . he served four terms as president of the maine senate -lrb- 1975 -- 1982 -rrb- , which made him the longest serving president in maine history . sewall was born in old town , maine , son of james wingate sewall and louise gray sewall in the home that his great grandfather and speaker of the maine house of representatives , george p. sewall , built between c. 1835 and 1851 . his maternal grandfather , george gray , founded old town canoe company . he attended local schools and bowdoin college . he was also president of james w. sewall co. , an international forest engineering firm in old town , where he had also been a city councillor and mayor . sewall served as president of the maine senate from 1975 to 1982 . he was defeated in 1982 by democrat michael pearson . upon leaving the legislature , sewall was appointed to the board of trustees of maine maritime academy by governor brennan . soon after his appointment , he was elected chairman , a post he held for 20 years . he was also appointed by president george h.w. bush to be a u.s. commissioner of the roosevelt campobello international park joint commission and a member of the commission on merchant marine and defense by president reagan and re-appointments by president g.h.w. bush . he was a trustee of eastern maine medical center in bangor , and a director of merchants national bank , later merrill bank , now people 's united bank , both also in bangor . sewall was a moderate republican . on november 23 , 2011 , sewall died at the eastern maine medical center in bangor , maine .
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- profession is ceo firms in the u.s. of one of the oldest consulting forestry engineering- death place is bangor , maine- residence is old town , maine- preceded is michael pearson- term is 1967 -- 1983- party is republican- state senate is maine- death date is 23 november 2011- spouse is hilda thoreau wheelwright- district is 27- birth date is 17 december 1921- state is maine- name is joseph sewall- birth place is old town , maine- religion is episcopalian- alma mater is bowdoin college