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Frank Sawyer was born in Massachusetts in 1835. He served in the Arkansas House of Representatives in 1877 as a representative of Lincoln County. He was mulatto and described as a lawyer and county assessor. The 1880 Census reports him married, with both parents born in North Carolina.
Sources: Blake J. Wintory, African-American Legislators in the Arkansas General Assembly, 1868-1893, LXV Ark. Hist. Q. 385 (Wint 2006); e-mail from Blake Wintory dtd 8/29/2006 (Census Place: Cane Creek, Lincoln, Arkansas); Family History Library Film 1254049; NA Film Number TP-0049; Page Number 74D); Legislative list in Rules of the House (1887); 1880 U.S. Census;