Lewis E. Sawyer

Lewis Ernest Sawyer (born June 24, 1867 in Shelby County , Alabama , † May 5, 1923 in Hot Springs , Arkansas ) was an American politician . Between March and May 1923 he represented the sixth constituency of the state of Arkansas in the US House of Representatives .

Career

While still a child, Lewis Sawyer and his parents moved to Lee County , Mississippi . There he attended public schools. He then studied at the University of Mississippi at Oxford . After studying law and being admitted to the bar, he began in Friars Point , also in the state of Mississippi, to work in this profession in 1895 . In 1896 he also became mayor of that municipality.

He served in the Philippines during the Spanish-American War . After his return he practiced as a lawyer in Iuka, Mississippi. In 1900 Sawyer moved to Hot Springs, Arkansas, where he also worked as a lawyer. He was a member of the Democratic Party and was elected to the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1913 and 1915 , and was its speaker from 1915 to 1917 as the successor to Joe Hardage .

In the 1922 congressional elections, Sawyer was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington in the sixth district of Arkansas , where he replaced Chester W. Taylor on March 4, 1923 . However, he was unable to exercise his new mandate for long because he died in Hot Springs on May 5th of the same year. After a by-election, his seat fell to James B. Reed .

Web links

• Lewis E. Sawyer in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Lewis E. Sawyer in the database of Find a Grave (English)