Enos Kittredge Sawyer (1879 - 1933)
Born and died at Franklin (NH).
Merchant, local and state legislator.
Portrait by unknown artist, after a c.1918 photograph.
Presented to the State by Mr. Sawyer

Sawyer (1879 - 1933) was born and died at Franklin (NH). After graduation from Phillips Andover Academy (Andover, MA), Class of 1898, Sawyer briefly attended Dartmouth College. He then returned to his father's business of meats, groceries and provisions, and he remained in that business for the rest of his life.

Sawyer was a lifelong Democrat, and was for many years Chairman of the Democratic City Committee in Franklin. In an era of national and state political reform Sawyer was twice elected Mayor of Franklin (1909, 1910). He was elected to the State Senate in 1913, when the Republicans split between Taft and Roosevelt and lost both the state governorship and the legislature. Sawyer made an effort to advance to the United States House of Representatives in 1914, but he lost in the Democratic primary.

In 1918 President Woodrow Wilson appointed Sawyer to head the United States Employment Service in New Hampshire and Vermont. The agency was set up to handle workers unemployed because of postwar declines in orders for manufactures, and to help returning war veterans find work. Sawyer worked diligently at this task. He concluded his career in government service by serving as Secretary of State for Governor Fred H. Brown (1923 - 1924).

Reference: H. H. Metcalf, ed. New Hampshire Notables (1919); The Manchester Union [obituary, p. 1], March 3, 1933.