# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/frederick-a-sawyer
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:37:07.123Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/frederick-a-sawyer"
name: "Frederick A. Sawyer"
slug: "frederick-a-sawyer"
description: "Frederick Adolphus Sawyer was a United States senator from South Carolina. Born in Bolton, Massachusetts, he attended the public schools, graduated from Harvard University in 1844, taught school in New England from 1844 to 1859, and took charge of the state's normal school at Charleston, South Carolina in 1859. He returned to the North during the Civil War, and returned to Charleston in February 1865 where he was active in advancing Reconstruction measures. On the night of April 14, 1865, Sawyer was at Ford's Theater in Washington, D.C., and witnessed the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. He was appointed collector of internal revenue in the second South Carolina district in 1865, and upon the readmission of the State of South Carolina to representation, Sawyer was elected as a Republican to the U.S. Senate, serving from July 16, 1868, to March 4, 1873. While in the Senate, he was chairman of the Committee on Education and a member of the Committee on Education and Labor."
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birthDate: "1822-12-12"
deathDate: "1891-07-31"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump