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William C. Sawyer...
Personal background: Born in Bangor, Maine, William Sawyer now lives in Acton with his wife, Joan Gardner, and their three children. Sawyer received both his undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University, and then, from 1955 to 1958, served in the U.S. Army in the judge advocate general corps, prosecuting and defending criminal matters...
Experience: Sawyer served as a selectman for the town of Acton from 1968 to 1975. He also served for 15 years on the Metropolitian Area Planning Council and was the Region One Director of the National Association of Regional Councils. He ran for U.S. Congress and lost in 1980. He is now a partner in the Boston law firm of Wood, Clarkin and Sawyer...
Positions: Sawyer lists environmental protection and fighting crime and drugs among his top political priorities. Sawyer has said that administration of special educational programs, health care and bank insolvency programs should be the purview of individual federal and state agencies...
...Sawyer is an advocate of the "boot camp" programs for young offenders and drug users as alternative methods of imprisonment...