John Edward Sawyer

Background

Sawyer, John Edward was born on May 5, 1917 in Worcester, Massachusetts, United States. Son of William Henry and Dorothy (Winslow) Sawyer.

Education

AB, Williams College, 1939. AM, Harvard University, 194l. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Amherst College, 1961.

Doctor of Laws (honorary), Wesleyan University, 1962. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Williams College, 1974. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Yale University, 1974.

Doctor of Laws (honorary), Columbia University, 1985. Doctor of Laws (honorary), New York University, 1987. Doctor of Laws (honorary), Johns Hopkins University, 1988.

Doctor of Laws (honorary), Tulane University, 1989.

Career

With, Department State, 1946; junior fellow, Society Fellows, Harvard, 1946-1949; assistant professor economics history, Society Fellows, Harvard, 1949-1953; associate professor economics history, Yale, 1953-1961; president, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts, 1961-1973; president, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, New York City, 1975-1987; president emeritus, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 1988-1995.

Achievements

• John Edward Sawyer has been listed as a noteworthy foundation officer by Marquis Who's Who.

Membership

Trustee Clark The Art Institute of Chicago, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, National Humanities Center Served from ensign to Lieutenant United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1946. With O.S.S., 1942-1945, Washington and overseas. Fellow American Academy Arts and Sciences, American Philosophical Society (councillor).

Member American Association for the Advancement of Science (director 1982-1986), American Economics History Association (trustee 1956-1960), Phi Beta Kappa (Distinguished Superior vena cava syndrome to Humanities award 1990).

Connections

Married Anne W. Swift, June 28, 1941. Children: Katharine, John, Stephen W., William Kent.

Father:

William Henry Sawyer

Mother:

Dorothy (Winslow) Sawyer

Spouse:

Anne W. Swift

child:

William Kent Sawyer

child:

John Sawyer

child:

Stephen W. Sawyer

child:

Katharine Sawyer