Tom Sawyer, an eight-term Democratic congressman from Ohio whose concern that the 1990 census had missed more than two million Black Americans spurred the federal government to improve its subsequent population counts, died on May 20 in a nursing facility in Akron.He was 77.His wife, Joyce (Handler) Sawyer, said the cause was Parkinson's disease.
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