Background
Sauer, Claire was born on March 12, 1929 in Valley Stream, New York, United States. Daughter of Harry Charles and Florence Gertrude (Tews) Essig.
Sauer, Claire was born on March 12, 1929 in Valley Stream, New York, United States. Daughter of Harry Charles and Florence Gertrude (Tews) Essig.
Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1951.
Assistant to president, Glover Associations, management consultant, 1951-1953; researcher, writer, Long Island Association Commerce and Industry, 1972-1974; assistant to director program for urban and policy science, State University of New York, Stony Brook, New York, 1974-1976; legislator, Suffolk County, Riverhead, New York, 1976-1978; realtor, S.M. Entertainment Strong, Inc., Old Lyme, Connecticut, 1980-1990; member, Connecticut General Assembly, Hartford, since 1995.
Former chairman Suffolk County Charter Revision Commission. Former member Suffolk County Youth Board, Huntington Youth Board. Former member Huntington Town Democratic Committee.
Former member board directors Literacy Volunteers, Lyme (Connecticut) Land Conservation Trust, Lymes Youth Service Bureau. Former member Lyme Board Finance. Former registrar of voters Town of Lyme.
Chairman Lyme Affordable Housting Committee. Secretary-treasurer Joshuatown Association. Vice president Taxpayers Alliance To Serve Connecticut.
Former selectwoman Town of Lyme. Member American Civil Liberties Union, American Association of University Women, League of Women Voters (past board directors New York State, past president Suffolk County council, former government director and fiscal affairs specialist Connecticut board directors, president Lower Connecticut Valley 1982-1988, member state board directors 1989-1994), National Organization of Women, Lyme-Old Lyme Chamber of Commerce (president 1982), Audubon Society, Americans United for Separation Church and State, Child and Family Association Southeastern Connecticut, Coalition To Stop Gun Violence, Common Cause, Concord Coalition, Connecticut National Abortion Rights League, Connecticut River Museum, Florence Griswold Museum, Goodspeed Opera House Foundation, Handgun Control, Literacy Volunteers, Lyme Public Hall Association, Lyme Art Association, American Association Retired Persons, Mental Health Association Connecticut, Nature Conservancy, National Women's Political Caucus, Old Saybrook Chamber of Commerce, People for American Way, Planned Parenthood.
Married Frederick Sauer, October 7, 1953 (deceased May 1989). Children: Frederick, David.