Philetus Sawyer
Born: September 22, 1816
Birthplace: Whiting, Vermont
Father: Ephraim P. Sawyer 1780 – 1854
Mother: Mary "Polly" Parks 1789 – 1832
Wife: Melvina M. Hadley 1825 – 1888
(Buried: Riverside Cemetery, Oshkosh, Wisconsin)
Children:
Edgar Philetus Sawyer 1842 – 1927
(Buried: Riverside Cemetery, Oshkosh, Wisconsin)
Earl T. Sawyer 1845 – 1848
(Buried: Riverside Cemetery, Oshkosh, Wisconsin)
Ella E. Sawyer 1849 – 1851
(Buried: Riverside Cemetery, Oshkosh, Wisconsin)
Emma Sawyer White 1856 – 1896
(Buried: Riverside Cemetery, Oshkosh, Wisconsin)
Ema Sawyer Goodman 1859 – 1943
(Buried: Graceland Cemetery, Chicago, Illinois)
Political Party: Republican Party
Occupation before War:
Lumber Businessman in Fond du Lac County, Wisconsin
1857: Member of Wisconsin State Assembly
Civil War Career:
1861: Member of Wisconsin State Assembly
1863 – 1864: Mayor of Oshkosh, Wisconsin
1865 – 1875: United States Congressman from Wisconsin
1865 – 1867: Member of House Invalid Pensions Committee
1865 – 1869: Member of House Manufactures Committee
Occupation after War:
1867 – 1875: Member House Interstate and Foreign Commerce
1869 – 1871: Member House Public Expenditures Committee
1871 – 1873: Chairman House Public Expenditures Committee
1871 – 1875: Member of House Accounts Committee
1873 – 1875: Chairman of House Pacific Railroad Committee
1874: Choose not to be candidate for renomination for U.S. Congress
1881 – 1893: United States Senator from Wisconsin
1881 – 1883: Member of Senate Territories Committee
1883 – 1885: Member of Senate Agriculture and Forestry Committee
1885 – 1889: Member of Senate Pensions Committee
1887 – 1889: Member Senate Interstate and Foreign Commerce
1891 – 1893: Member of Senate Pensions Committee
1891 – 1893: Member Interstate and Foreign Commerce
1892: Choose not to be a candidate for reelection to U.S. Senator
1892 – 1900: Lumber Businessman in Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Died: March 29, 1900
Place of Death: Oshkosh, Wisconsin
Age at time of Death: 83 years old
Burial Place: Riverside Cemetery, Oshkosh, Wisconsin
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