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Sawyer was born in 1777 in Camden County, near Elizabeth City, North Carolina, United States. He was the youngest of the nine children of Lemuel and Mary (Taylor) Sawyer of Camden County.
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Sawyer was born in 1777 in Camden County, near Elizabeth City, North Carolina, United States. He was the youngest of the nine children of Lemuel and Mary (Taylor) Sawyer of Camden County.
Lemuel was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1799. During residence of more than a year in Philadelphia with his brother-in-law, Dempsey Burges, a member of Congress, he devoted irregular study to mathematics.
In 1799 he attended the University of North Carolina, then studied law for three years.
Returning to Camden County in 1797, he was both unhappy and unsuccessful in the management of his farm.
He represented Camden County in the House of Commons in 1800. Before casting his vote as Republican presidential elector for Jefferson and Clinton in 1804, he delivered a partisan address in which he hailed Jefferson's election in 1801 as "a greater subject for joy and congratulation than the capture of Cornwallis"; and the sitting legislature elected him a member of the Council of State.
Sawyer's stanch Republicanism, attractive personality, and prominent family connection resulted in 1806 in his election to Congress.
During the first interruption in his congressional career, he sold his farm, resided in Norfolk, Va. , and was part owner and business agent of a store in his native county; during the second, he wrote Blackbeard, A Comedy, in Four Acts; Founded on Fact (Washington, 1824), which was staged in New York in 1833.
After war began, he proposed, December 16, 1812, a striking increase in the navy. On December 16, 1825 he proposed the use of a war vessel for the exploration of the polar regions of North America, declaring in a widely noticed address that "the time has come when this nation should likewise enter into this glorious career of discovery and human improvement". He voted against the tariff act of 1828. From 1824 he was a Jackson Democrat.
After a brief unhappy residence in North Carolina following his retirement from Congress in 1829, Sawyer moved to Brooklyn where he employed much of his leisure in study and writing. He wrote a second drama, The Wreck of Honor, a Tragedy, in Five Acts (1826); a work of fiction, Printz Hall; A Record of New Sweden (2 vols. , 1839); A Biography of John Randolph of Roanoke, with a Selection from His Speeches (1844); and Auto-biography of Lemuel Sawyer (1844).
From 1850 until his death he held a minor departmental clerkship in Washington, where he died.
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Initially he was a stanch Republican, later became a Jackson Democrat.
In Congress, Sawyer was a consistent supporter of the administrations of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe. He opposed a naval establishment, advocated rigid economy, and supported the Embargo, though the distress of the lumber trade in his district prompted him to offer, on November 15, 1808, a resolution designed to open trade with the West Indies.
Retaining after the war his belief in economy and strict construction of the Constitution, he opposed the federal policy of internal improvements as unconstitutional and inexpedient.
His extravagance, questionable conduct, and business incapacity dissipated the money obtained from his third marriage.
Sawyer was married three times: in August 1810 to Mary Snowden of Camden County, who died in 1812; on December 24, 1820, to Camilla Wertz of Washington, District of Columbia, who died January 27, 1826; and in 1828, to a well-to-do widow, Mrs. Diana (Rapalye) Fisher of Brooklyn, New York. Several children by his first two wives died in infancy.