Samuel H. Shapiro

Samuel H. Shapiro

Infobox Governor
name= Samuel Harvey Shapiro


order=34th
office= Governor of Illinois
term_start= May 21, 1968
term_end= January 13, 1969
lieutenant= "Vacant"
predecessor= Otto Kerner, Jr.
successor= Richard B. Ogilvie
order2=38th
office2= Lieutenant Governor of Illinois
term_start2= January 9, 1961
term_end2= May 21, 1968
governor2= Otto Kerner, Jr.
predecessor2= John William Chapman
successor2= Paul M. Simon (1969)
birth_date= April 25, 1907
birth_place= Governorate of Estonia, Russian Empire
death_date= March 16, 1987 (aged 79)
death_place= Kankakee, Illinois, United States
spouse=
profession= Attorney
party= Democrat
religion= Judaism

Samuel Harvey Shapiro (born Israel Shapiro) (April 25, 1907 - March 16, 1987) was the Governor of Illinois, serving from 1968 to 1969. He was a member of the Democratic Party.

Born in 1907 in the Governorate of Estonia of Russian Empire, he emigrated to the United States at an early age. He graduated from the University of Illinois College of Law. As a lawyer, Shapiro practiced in Kankakee, Illinois. Turning to public service, he was elected state's attorney (county prosecutor) of Kankakee County.

Shapiro was elected lieutenant governor in 1960 and again in 1964, and took office as governor when the previous governor Otto Kerner, Jr. resigned to accept appointment to the federal appellate court. Shapiro thus became the second Jewish governor of Illinois (Henry Horner being the first). Illinois thereby became the first state to have had two Jewish governors; New York, Oregon and Rhode Island have each since elected at least a second governor of the faith.

Upon becoming governor, Shapiro ran at once for a full term of his own, but was narrowly defeated by Republican Richard B. Ogilvie in the 1968 election. He then returned to private life.

Shapiro was an alumnus of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity. From 1984 until his death, he led the effort to establish a permanent headquarters for the fraternity's national offices.

He died in 1987 in Kankakee, Illinois and he is buried in Jewish Waldheim Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois.

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