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Sasscer is a surname and may refer to:

People:

Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer politician and United States Army officer

Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer represented the fifth district of the state of Maryland in the United States House of Representatives for seven terms from 1939 to 1953.

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Digges-Sasscer house

The Digges-Sasscer house is an historic building in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. It has been home to Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer, Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer, Jr. and Daniel Carroll Digges. The house has been documented by the Historic American Buildings Survey and is listed in the Maryland Historical Trust.

The Sasscer Tobacco Barn is a historic tobacco barn in Brandywine, Maryland.

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Lansdale Ghiselin Sasscer Jr. was a member of the Maryland House of Delegates, first elected in 1954.

Daniel Carroll Digges served on the Maryland House of Delegates in 1849 and served twice as state's attorney for Prince George's County, Maryland.

Frederick Sasscer Jr. was an attorney, a journalist and an educator from Upper Marlboro, Maryland. Sasscer's family has lived in Upper Marlboro since the 1760s. His parents were Dr. Frederick Sasscer and Rosalie Ghiselin.

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The Prince George's Enquirer and Southern Maryland Advertiser was a weekly newspaper published from 1882 to January 30, 1925 in Upper Marlboro, Maryland. It replaced a paper that had been established during the American Civil War by Michael J. Slayman, The Prince Georgian and Southern Maryland Advertiser. The Enquirer was founded by Joseph K. Roberts and Frederick Sasscer, Jr., both politically well-connected lawyers from Upper Marlboro. Roberts died in 1888, but Sasscer continued to edit the paper and eventually became its owner, solidifying the paper's political stance as staunchly Democratic. In 1909, an apprentice working for the paper, Samuel A. Wyvill, became part owner. Together, Sasscer and Wyvill bought the Marlboro Gazette from Mary and Charles Wilson on January 30, 1925 and named the new merged paper The Enquirer-Gazette. Frederick Sasscer remained editor until his death in 1929. The Enquirer-Gazette continues to publish issues to this day.

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