sentences:  John G. Sawyer was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives as a Republican in 1884, serving three consecutive terms to the Forty-ninth, Fiftieth, and Fifty-first Congresses (March 4, 1885-March 3, 1891).A staunch Republican, he originally aligned with the Whigs and assisted in organizing the Republican party in Orleans County.Upon his return to Albion in 1891, he resumed the practice of his profession and died there September 5, 1898.