Harold S. Sawyer

Harold Samuel Sawyer ( born March 21, 1920 in San Francisco, California, † April 3, 2003 in Kent County, Michigan ) was an American politician. Between 1977 and 1985 he represented the state of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Harold Sawyer attended the common schools and the Marin Junior College. Then he studied until 1940 at the University of California at Berkeley. During the Second World War, Sawyer served between 1941 and 1945 in the U.S. Navy. After studying law and qualifying as a lawyer, he started in Grand Rapids ( Michigan) to work in his new profession. Between 1968 and 1976, Sawyer was a member of a commission to revise the laws of the state of Michigan. In the years 1975 and 1976 he was a prosecutor in Kent County.

Politically, Sawyer member of the Republican Party. In the congressional elections of 1976 he was in the fifth electoral district of Michigan in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Richard Vander Veen on January 3, 1977. After three re- elections, he was able to complete in Congress until January 3, 1985 published four legislative sessions. In 1984 he gave up another candidacy. After his retirement from the U.S. House of Representatives, he retired from politics. Harold Sawyer died on 3 April 2003 in his estate in the small town of Algoma.

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