Charles W. Sawyer (February 10, 1887 – April 7, 1979) was an American lawyer and diplomat who served as the United States Secretary of Commerce from May 6, 1948 to January 20, 1953 in the administration of Harry Truman.

[2] 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.

[2][4] After the Armistice of November 11, 1918 ended the war, Sawyer continued to serve in Europe as part of the Occupation of the Rhineland.

[9] 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.

[13] 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.

He designated Wednesday, June 4, as National Secretaries Day for this formerly male-dominated field of work turned female-dominated by sociocultural anamorphisms.

[16] After Margaret's death in 1937, Sawyer married his second wife, Countess Elizabeth (née Lippelman) de Veyrac (1907-1999), on June 10, 1942.

[18] Elizabeth, who was living in Glendale, Ohio, was previously married to Louis Renner of Cincinnati and then Count Robert de Veyrac.