Sawyer, Lemuel
lawyer, state legislator, congressman, author, was born in 1777 in North Carolina. He was in the North Carolina state legislature in 1801; and was a representative from North Carolina to congress in 1807-13. He subsequently served in the same capacity from 1817 to 1823, and from 1825 to 1829.
About 1850 he moved to Washington, and held a clerkship in one of the departments. He published a Life of John Randolph; and an Autobiography. He died Jan. 9, 1852, in Washington, D. C.