Frederick A. Sawyer

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"(December 12, 1822 -- July 21, 1891) Frederick Adolphus Sawyer was a(n) teacher, collector of internal revenue, assistant secretary, employed in a coast survey, special agent, president of a company, and American politician. He was born in Bolton, Worcester County, Massachusetts and moved to Charleston, South Carolina. Frederick took charge of the state normal school at Charleston, South Carolina; was appointed collector of internal revenue in the second South Carolina district (1865); was appointed assistant secretary of the treasury (1873- 1874); was employed in the United States Coast Survey (1874 - 1880); and was a special agent of the War Department (1880 - 1874). Sawyer was elected as a Republican to the United States Senate (July 16, 1868 - March 3, 1873) and served as chairman on the Committee on Education (41st Congress) and on the Committee on Education and Labor (42nd Congress). [Source: 'Biographical Directory of the United States Congress 1774 - present', available at https://bioguideretro.congress.gov/Home/MemberDetails?memIndex=S000086]"

Member of South Carolina Delegation—The Civil Rights Act of 1875, South Carolina Delegation—United States Fifteenth Amendment.

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