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Alma mater. Alabama State University. Eugene Sawyer Jr. (September 3, 1934 – January 19, 2008) was an American businessman, educator, and politician. Sawyer was selected by the Chicago City Council as the 53rd [5] Mayor of Chicago, Illinois after the sudden death of then–mayor Harold Washington.
Jan 29, 2003 · Eugene Sawyer was born in Alabama and moved to Chicago in 1957 to work as a lab technician. He became acting mayor in 1987 after the death of Harold Washington and later founded a natural gas company.
Jan 21, 2008 · By Jon Yates and Tara Malone. PUBLISHED: January 21, 2008 at 1:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 22, 2021 at 5:37 a.m. Eugene Sawyer, an accidental mayor who bridged the gap between the Council Wars of...
May 7, 2024 · Eugene Sawyer was the acting mayor of Chicago from 1987 to 1989, after being elected by the City Council. He was a former alderman, a chemist, and a tobacco businessman.
Jan 22, 2008 · Eugene Sawyer, 73, Chicago’s second African American mayor, who served briefly during a deeply divisive period in city politics in the late 1980s, died Saturday in the city’s Adventist Hinsdale...
Eugene Sawyer (September 3, 1934 – January 19, 2008) was an American businessman and politician. He was the Mayor of Chicago from 1987 to 1989. He was a member of the Democratic Party. He was the second African American to be mayor of Chicago. Sawyer was born on September 3, 1934 in Greensboro, Alabama. He studied at Alabama State ...
Dec 3, 1987 · In the tumult of Chicago politics, Eugene Sawyer has been considered the calm voice of reason that could appeal to the city's many opposing factions. His quiet demeanor has distinguished him in...
