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American politician
Lewis Ernest Sawyer
(June 24, 1867 – May 5, 1923) was a
U.S. Representative
from
Arkansas
.
Born in
Shelby County, Alabama
, Sawyer moved with his parents to
Lee County, Mississippi
.
He attended the public schools and was graduated from the
University of Mississippi at Oxford
.
He studied law. He was
admitted to the bar
and commenced practice at
Friars Point, Mississippi
, in 1895.
He served as mayor of Friars Point from 1896 until he enlisted in the
Spanish?American War
in June 1898. He served in the Philippine Islands during the war.
He resumed the practice of law in
Iuka, Mississippi
, in 1900.
He moved to
Hot Springs, Arkansas
, in 1908 and continued the practice of his profession.
He served as member of the
Arkansas House of Representatives
in 1913 and 1915. He served as
Speaker of the Arkansas House of Representatives
in 1915.
Sawyer was elected as a
Democrat
to the
Sixty-eighth
Congress and served from March 4, 1923, until his death at
Hot Springs, Arkansas
, on May 5, 1923.
He was interred in Hollywood Cemetery.
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This article incorporates
public domain material
from the
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress