SAWYER, FREDERICK A. (?-?). Frederick A. Sawyer, lawyer and government official, a native of North Carolina, practiced law in New Orleans before he sailed to Texas on the Ocean as aide to Thomas Jefferson Green in the spring of 1836. From August 8 to September 13 Sawyer was David G. Burnet's secretary of war in the ad interim government. He lived at Velasco. In 1838-39 he represented Brazoria County in the House of the Third Texas Congress. He probably went to California during the gold rush of 1849; on September 20, 1853, he was made Texas commissioner of deeds in California and was living in San Francisco on May 17, 1857, when his commission was renewed.

BIBLIOGRAPHY: Texas House of Representatives, Biographical Directory of the Texan Conventions and Congresses, 1832-1845 (Austin: Book Exchange, 1941).