Lemuel Sawyer

Lemuel Sawyer (1777 – January 9, 1852) was a Congressional Representative from North Carolina.

Sawyer was born in Camden County, near Elizabeth City, North Carolina. He attended Flatbush Academy, Long Island, New York, and was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1799. He attended the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia for a time. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1804 and commenced practice in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

Sawyer was a member of the State House of Commons in 1800 and 1801. He was elected to the Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Congresses (March 4, 1807 – March 3, 1813) as a Democratic-Republican, and the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth as a Jacksonian (March 4, 1817 – March 3, 1823). He ran unsuccessfully in 1822 for the Eighteenth Congress. Sawyer was elected to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses (March 4, 1825 – March 3, 1829), but was an not reelected in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress. He was department clerk in Washington, D.C., until his death in that city.

He was interred in the family burying ground at Lambs Ferry, Camden County, North Carolina, about 4 miles (6.4 km) from Elizabeth City, North Carolina.

External links

• Lemuel Sawyer at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress

United States House of Representatives
Preceded by Thomas Wynns	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 1st congressional district 1803–1807	Succeeded by William H. Murfree
Preceded by William H. Murfree	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 1st congressional district 1817–1823	Succeeded by Alfred M. Gatlin
Preceded by Alfred M. Gatlin	Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from North Carolina's 1st congressional district 1825–1829	Succeeded by William B. Shepard