Frederick Adolphus Sawyer (12 December 1822-31 July 1891) was a Republican US Senator from South Carolina from 16 July 1868 to 4 March 1873, succeeding James Henry Hammond and preceding John J. Patterson.
Biography[]
Frederick Adolphus Sawyer was born in Bolton, Massachusetts in 1822, and he taught school in New England from 1844 to 1859, when he moved to South Carolina. He fled to the North during the American Civil War, but he returned to the South during Reconstruction, became a revenue collector in 1865, and served in the US Senate from 1868 to 1873 as a Republican. He served as Assistant Secretary of the Treasury from 1873 to 1874, as a coastal surveyor from 1874 to 1880, as a War Department special agent from 1880 to 1887, laid out the the Cumberland Gap city of Shawanee in Tennessee, and died in Claiborne County, Tennessee in 1891.