William Sawyer (1803 – 1877) was a two-term member of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio from 1845 to 1849.
From 1832 to 1835 Sawyer served in the Ohio House of Representatives, filling the position of speaker in 1835.
Sawyer 'liked to stand by the Speaker's chair during debates noisily munching sausages and cornbread and using his pants for a napkin and his jack-knife for a toothpick'.
[1] In 1850-1851 Sawyer served as a member of the Ohio State Constitutional Convention.
[Sawyer] would never submit to the slave States sending their emancipated blacks within her borders or colonies.