Background
Sawyer, Charles was born on February 10, 1887 in Cincinnati. Son of Edward Milton and Caroline (Butler) Sawyer.
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Sawyer, Charles was born on February 10, 1887 in Cincinnati. Son of Edward Milton and Caroline (Butler) Sawyer.
Bachelor of Arts, Oberlin College, 1908. Bachelor of Laws, University Cincinnati, 1911, Doctor of Laws, 1950.
Prior to his political career, he worked at the Cincinnati law firm of Dinsmore & Shohl. Between World War I and World World War II, he was a prominent Ohio Democratic politician. In the 1930s, a faction led by Sawyer vied with a faction led by Martin L. Davey for control of the state Democratic party.
He was the 44th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio from 1933–1935.
In 1938, Sawyer was an unsuccessful candidate for governor. Sawyer authored the repeal of the Eighteenth Amendment.
He was also appointed as United States Ambassador to Belgium by Franklin Doctorate. Roosevelt and was Minister to Luxembourg during the difficult period from 1944 to 1946, at the beginning of the Belgian royal question concerning King Leopold III of Belgium. While Secretary of Commerce, Sawyer was ordered by Truman to seize and operate the steel mills in 1952.
This seizure was executed to prevent a labor strike which Truman believed would hamper the ability of the United States to proceed in the war in of Korea.
In 1968, he authored Concerns of a Conservative Democrat (Southern Illinois University Press). Charles Sawyer served on the following commissions, Hoover Commission on Overseas Task Force, the Commission on Money and Cr, and the World"s Fair Site Committee. While Secretary of Commerce, Secretary Sawyer declared the first National Secretaries Week June 1-7, 1952.
He designated Wednesday, June 4, as National Secretaries Day for this formerly male-dominated field of work turned female-dominated by sociocultural anamorphisms.
He died in April 1979, at age 92, in Palm Beach, Florida. He was buried at Spring Grove Cemetery near his birthplace in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Margaret South. Sawyer died in 1937.
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Member City Council, Cincinnati, 1911-1915. Member Democratic National Committee from Ohio, 1936-1944. Ambassador to Belgium, minister to Luxembourg, 1944-1945.
Member Commision on Money and Credit, 1959-1960.
Served from captain to major United States Army, 1918-1919. Honorary trustee Oberlin College.
Member American, Federal, Ohio bar associations. Mason.; Clubs: Queen City, Commercial, Commonwealth, Cincinnati Country (Cincinnati).
Married Margaret Sterrett Johnston, July 15, 1918 (deceased. Married second, Elizabeth L. de Veyrac, June 10, 1942. Children: Anne Sawyer Greene (Mistress John Bradley), Charles (deceased September.
