Lemuel Sawyer was an American politician who served as a US Representative from North Carolina.
10 Facts About Lemuel Sawyer
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Lemuel Sawyer attended Flatbush Academy, Long Island, New York, and was graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1799.
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Lemuel Sawyer attended the University of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia for a time.
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Lemuel Sawyer studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1804 and commenced practice in Elizabeth City, North Carolina.
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Lemuel Sawyer was a member of the State House of Commons in 1800 and 1801.
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Lemuel Sawyer was elected to the Tenth, Eleventh, and Twelfth Congresses as a Democratic-Republican, and the Fifteenth, Sixteenth, and Seventeenth as a Jacksonian.
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Lemuel Sawyer ran unsuccessfully in 1822 for the Eighteenth Congress.
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Lemuel Sawyer was elected to the Nineteenth and Twentieth Congresses, but was not reelected in 1828 to the Twenty-first Congress.
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Lemuel Sawyer was department clerk in Washington, DC, until his death in that city.
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Lemuel Sawyer was interred in the family burying ground at Lambs Ferry, Camden County, North Carolina, about 4 miles from Elizabeth City, North Carolina.