Hiram Wilson Sawyer (June 11, 1843 – September 14, 1922) was an American lawyer, Democratic politician, and Wisconsin pioneer.

He came with his parents to the Wisconsin Territory in 1846, settling on a farm in the town of Burnett in Dodge County.

He attended the common schools in Dodge County and graduated from the Wayland Academy in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin.

He then read law in the offices of Lewis & Fribert in Juneau, Wisconsin, and was admitted to the bar in January 1867.

[3] During these sessions, one of the rare times that Democrats controlled the Wisconsin State Assembly, Sawyer was part of the committee which helped draft their signature railroad regulation bills.

[4] He last stood for election to a partisan office in 1898, when we was the Democratic party's nominee for governor of Wisconsin.