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Robert William Sawyer Jr. was born in Bangor, Maine on May 12, 1880, the oldest child of Robert William Sawyer (1850-1918) and Martha Copp (Paul) Sawyer. His father was involved at various times in the railroad, pulp and paper, and telegraph industries in Maine.
Judge Sawyer may refer to: Hiram Wilson Sawyer (1843–1922), county judge of Washington County, Wisconsin; John G. Sawyer (1825–1898), county judge of Orleans County, New York; Robert William Sawyer (1880–1959), county court judge of Deschutes County, Oregon; Samuel L. Sawyer (1813–1890), judge of the twenty-fourth judicial circuit of ...
Shafter was born in Athens, Vermont to Mary and William R. Shafter. [1] His father was an attorney, judge and member of the Vermont Legislature. [2] [3] His grandfather, James Shafter, fought in the American Revolution, was one of the founders of the town of Athens in Vermont in 1779, and served in the Vermont Legislature for 20 years. [4]
Sawyer was born in Philadelphia in 1918, the son of Henry Washington Sawyer II and his wife, Helen Curet Sawyer. [2] Although he was a Quaker, Sawyer's family had a tradition of military service dating to the Civil War when his immigrant grandfather, the first Henry Washington Sawyer, served in the 1st New Jersey Volunteer Cavalry. [3]
In 1843 Sawyer moved to St. Marys, Ohio. He was elected to United States Congress as a Democrat in 1844. He was reelected in 1846 but did not run for re-election in 1848. Sawyer 'liked to stand by the Speaker's chair during debates noisily munching sausages and cornbread and using his pants for a napkin and his jack-knife for a toothpick'. [1]
The couple’s son, 45-year-old Seth Carnes, walked out of the home as deputies arrived and told them he shot and killed his mother and father, the sheriff’s office said.
The Long family is a family of politicians from the United States.Many have characterized it as a political dynasty.After Huey Long's 1935 assassination, a family dynasty emerged: his brother Earl was elected lieutenant-governor in 1936, and governor in 1948 and 1956.
Lorenzo Sawyer (May 23, 1820 – September 7, 1891) was an American lawyer and judge who was appointed to the Supreme Court of California in 1860 and served as the ninth Chief Justice of California from 1868 to 1870.