Samuel Locke Sawyer

Samuel Locke Sawyer

Samuel Locke Sawyer (born November 27, 1813 in Mount Vernon , Hillsborough County , New Hampshire , †  March 29, 1890 in Independence , Missouri ) was an American politician . Between 1879 and 1881 he represented the state of Missouri in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Samuel Sawyer studied at Dartmouth College in Hanover until 1833 . After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1836, he began to work in this profession from 1838 in Lexington (Missouri). Between 1848 and 1856 he was a district attorney in the Missouri Sixth Judicial District. In 1861 he was a delegate to the meeting at which it was decided that the state should remain in the Union. Politically, Sawyer was a member of the Democratic Party at the time . Between 1871 and 1876 he served as a judge in Missouri's 24th Judicial District.

In the congressional election of 1878 he was elected as an independent Democrat in the eighth constituency of Missouri in the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC , where he succeeded Benjamin Joseph Franklin on March 4, 1879 . Since he refused to run again in 1880, he was only able to complete one legislative period in Congress until March 3, 1881 . After leaving the US House of Representatives, Sawyer practiced law again; he also went into banking. He died on March 29, 1890 in Independence, where he was also buried.

Web links

• Samuel Locke Sawyer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Samuel Locke Sawyer in the database of Find a Grave (English)