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Introducing
Gregg Sadwick
Republican Candidate
for US Congress
Gregg Sadwick is a lifelong resident of Monroe County, a Navy veteran, and the president of two local companies which together employ over a hundred people in our region. His children have each made their home in this community and the quality of his family’s life here is as important to him as your family’s happiness is to you. He is running for Congress because for too long party affiliation has often prevented our elected representatives in New York State from doing what is right.
His great-great grandfather emigrated to America through Ellis Island, where the family name had been changed to Sadwick from its more difficult spelling and pronunciation of the original Lithuanian name. His maternal ancestors come from Italy providing the earliest influence on his life being raised in an extended family, where cousins were like brothers and sisters.
Gregg’s father was a pipefitter at Kodak, and his mother was the household’s Chief Executive Officer raising 4 boys, Gregg being the 3rd. The household CEO had the boys working at a young age, whether delivering the Irondequoit Shopper at age 13, working on Green Acres Farm at age 14, or getting up early to deliver the D&C paper.
While in college at St. John Fisher University, Gregg was enrolled in the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corp (NROTC). During that time, Gregg’s father passed away, and soon after his mother had a stroke that left her disabled for the next 35 years. Upon graduating from St John Fisher University, Gregg was commissioned as a United States Naval Officer and despite the personal hardships that he and his family endured, he then had to depart to fulfill his armed services commitment. Highlights of his experiences in the Navy included a 6-month deployment in the Mediterranean followed by a 6-month deployment circumnavigating South America, working with each coastal country’s navy along the way.
After his tours of duty, Gregg moved back to Monroe County to settle, raise a family (2 sons), and helped take care of his mother Joann in her last days. He made a home for his family in Hilton and then later in Greece where he joined the Rotary Club. During this time, Gregg took leadership positions in multiple companies, which led to him being granted ownership equity at each one.
Recently he started a collision shop with his son, along with acquiring a granite and quartz countertop company where Gregg had previously been the President of its Rochester Division; one of five divisions owned by a holding company. On Christmas Eve 2019, the holding corporation was through bankruptcy. Over the next 3 months Gregg acquired the company’s assets out of bankruptcy, saving every one of the 80+ employee’s jobs; he was the only divisional president to save his operation. The week after, Governor Cuomo made the decision to shut down major sectors of New York’s economy because of his administration’s decisions during the COVID pandemic... But that’s a story for another time.
Today, both of the companies are healthy and employ over 100 in Monroe County, and now Gregg sees opportunity in bringing self-governance, self-reliance, and personal liberty back to the American forefront.
