Background
Sawyer was born in Edenton, North Carolina, in 1800.
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Samuel Sawyer
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He attended Edenton Academy and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Sawyer studied law, was admitted to the bar, and commenced practice in Edenton.
Career
Sawyer was elected to the North Carolina State house of representatives, serving 1829-1832. Sawyer was elected to the state senate in 1834. He was elected in 1836 as a Whig to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1837 - March 3, 1839), where he was chairman of the Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings.
Sawyer was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection to the Twenty-sixth Congress, moved to Norfolk, Virginia, and resumed the practice of law.
He was editor of the Norfolk Argus for several years. He was appointed collector of customs at Norfolk on May 16, 1853, serving until April 6, 1858.
Sawyer moved to Washington, District of Columbia During the Civil War, he was appointed on September 17, 1861, as commissary with the rank of major in the Confederate service. He served until August 2, 1862.
Moving to the North, Sawyer died in Bloomfield, New Jersey in 1865.
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