Charles W. Sawyer

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Early life

Sawyer was born in Cincinnati on February 10, 1887. He was a son of Caroline (née Butler) Sawyer and Edward Milton Sawyer, a Maine Republican who moved to Ohio become a principal.<ref name="1950Bio"/>

He attended Oberlin College, earning a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1908, followed by the University of Cincinnati, where he received his law degree in 1911.<ref name="1950Bio"/>

Career

Early career

He served as a member of Cincinnati City Council from 1912 until 1916 when he ran for Mayor of Cincinnati losing to George Puchta. Prior to his political career, he worked at the Cincinnati law firm of Dinsmore & Shohl.

Military service

In August 1917, Sawyer joined the military for World War I, and was commissioned from civilian life as a captain of Infantry.<ref name="Roster">Template:Cite book</ref> After completing initial training at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, he served with the 158th Depot Brigade Camp Sherman, Ohio and was assigned as the post's provost marshal.<ref name="Roster"/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> In August 1918, he was promoted to Major.<ref name="Roster"/> He then served in France as adjutant of the 178th Infantry Brigade, a unit of the 89th Division.<ref name="Roster"/><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> After the Armistice of November 11, 1918 ended the war, Sawyer continued to serve in Europe as part of the Occupation of the Rhineland.<ref name="Roster"/> He returned to the United States in May 1919, and was discharged on 31 May.<ref name="Roster"/> Following his wartime service, Sawyer frequently participated in veterans events, and was a longtime member of the American Legion and Veterans of Foreign Wars.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Post-war career

Sawyer was also involved in several business ventures, including the American Rolling Mill Company and a share of the Cincinnati Reds, the Cincinnati Gardens, and a chain of newspapers and radio stations (through Great Trails Broadcasting Corporation).<ref name="1952Suit">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="1950Bio"/>

Between the Wars, he was a prominent Ohio Democratic politician. In the 1930s, a faction led by Sawyer vied with a faction led by Martin L. Davey for control of the state Democratic party.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> He was the 44th lieutenant governor of Ohio from 1933 to 1935. Sawyer authored the Twenty-first Amendment which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which established the prohibition of alcohol in the United States.<ref>Sawyer, Concerns of a Conservative Democrat, Southern Illinois University Press, pp. 48-51.</ref> From 1936 to 1944, Sawyer served as a member of the Democratic National Committee. In 1938, he was an unsuccessful candidate for governor of Ohio.<ref name="1950Bio"/>

Federal service

Ambassadorship

In 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt appointed Sawyer as the United States Ambassador to Belgium and served as was Minister to Luxembourg during the difficult period from 1944 to 1946, at the beginning of the Belgian Royal Question concerning King Leopold III of Belgium.<ref>Template:Ohio History Central</ref> Two years later, President Harry Truman appointed Sawyer to the U.S. Civil Service Commission's Review Board. Sawyer had first met Truman upon the latter's arrival in Antwerp en route to Germany to attend the Potsdam Conference.<ref name="Leviero1948">Template:Cite news</ref>

Secretary of Commerce

In 1948, Sawyer was chosen to succeed W. Averell Harriman as the United States Secretary of Commerce.<ref name="Belair1948">Template:Cite news</ref><ref name="Remington1950">Template:Cite news</ref> While Secretary of Commerce, Sawyer was ordered by Truman to seize and operate the steel mills in 1952.<ref name="Loftus1952">Template:Cite news</ref> This seizure was executed to prevent a labor strike which Truman believed would hamper the ability of the United States to proceed in the war in Korea.

While Secretary of Commerce, Secretary Sawyer declared the first National Secretaries Week from June 1 to 7, 1952. He designated Wednesday, June 4, as National Secretaries Day for this formerly male-dominated field of work turned female-dominated by sociocultural anamorphisms. Upon the end of Truman's term as office, Sawyer's term as Commerce Secretary also ended and he was succeeded by the Republican Sinclair Weeks who served during the administration of President Dwight D. Eisenhower.<ref name="1952Meeting">Template:Cite news</ref>

Later career

When Sawyer returned to Cincinnati after serving President Truman, he joined the law firm of Taft, Stettinius, and Hollister, which had been founded by another prominent Cincinnati politician, Robert A. Taft (the elder son of President William Howard Taft), and became its managing partner. Following Taft's death, Sawyer succeeded to his seat on the board of the Central Trust Company, a Cincinnati bank.<ref name="1954Post">Template:Cite news</ref>

In 1968, he authored Concerns of a Conservative Democrat which was published by the Southern Illinois University Press. Sawyer served on the Hoover Commission on Overseas Economic Operations Task Force, the Commission on Money and Credit, and the World's Fair Site Committee.

Sawyer gave $1 million to purchase 123 acres of riverfront property in Cincinnati for what became Sawyer Point Park.<ref name="NYTObit1979"/>

Personal life

On July 15, 1918, Sawyer married his first wife, Margaret Sterrett Johnston, a niece of Col. William Cooper Procter of Procter & Gamble. Together, they had five children, two daughters and three sons, including:<ref name="NYTObit1979"/> Anne Johnston Sawyer (who married John Pattison Williams. She later married John Bradley Greene);<ref name="NYTObit1979"/> Charles W. Sawyer II; Jean Johnston Sawyer (who married the Very Rev. John J. Weaver, Dean of Detroit Cathedral, in 1948);<ref name="1948Wedding">Template:Cite news</ref> John William Sawyer; and Edward Milton Sawyer.<ref name="NYTObit1979"/>

After Margaret's death in 1937, Sawyer married his second wife, Countess Elizabeth (née Lippelman) de Veyrac (1907–1999), on June 10, 1942.<ref name="1942Ceremony">Template:Cite news</ref> Elizabeth, who was living in Glendale, Ohio, was previously married to Louis Renner of Cincinnati and then Count Robert de Veyrac.<ref name="1942Wedding">Template:Cite news</ref> They had no children.<ref name="1950Bio">Template:Cite news</ref>

He died in April 1979, at age 92, at his home in Palm Beach, Florida. He was buried at Spring Grove Cemetery near his birthplace in Cincinnati, Ohio.<ref name="NYTObit1979">Template:Cite news</ref>

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Charles W. Sawyer

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