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Samuel Shapiro (other)
Samuel Shapiro may refer to: * Samuel Shapiro (Illinois politician) (1907–1987), governor of Illinois * Samuel Shapiro (Maine politician) Samuel Shapiro (born August 26, 1927) is an American politician in the state of Maine. A Democrat, Shapiro served from 1981 to 1996 as State Treasurer of Maine. Shapiro was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania to immigrant parents from Ukraine and ... (born 1927), Maine politician * Shmuel Shapiro (born 1974), French Jewish rabbi, hazzan, and singer * Samuel Sanford Shapiro (1930–2023), statistician who developed the Shapiro–Wilk test {{hndis, Shapiro, Samuel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Shapiro (Illinois Politician)
Samuel Harvey Shapiro (born Israel Shapiro; April 25, 1907 – March 16, 1987) was an American politician, the 34th governor of Illinois, serving from 1968 to 1969. He was a member of the Democratic Party. Life and career Born in 1907 in the Governorate of Estonia of the Russian Empire, he emigrated to the United States at an early age. He graduated from the University of Illinois College of Law in 1929. As a lawyer, Shapiro practiced in Kankakee, Illinois. Turning to public service, he was elected state's attorney (county prosecutor) of Kankakee County in 1936. From 1947–1961 he served in the Illinois State House of Representatives, where he took a special interest in mental health issues. Shapiro was elected the 38th Lieutenant Governor of Illinois 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 I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Samuel Shapiro (Maine Politician)
Samuel Shapiro (born August 26, 1927) is an American politician in the state of Maine. A Democrat, Shapiro served from 1981 to 1996 as State Treasurer of Maine. Shapiro was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania to immigrant parents from Ukraine and Lithuania. He spent two years in the U.S. Navy and then attended the University of Pittsburgh on the G.I. bill. He then moved to Waterville, Maine, where he ran several furniture stores owned by his father-in-law. Shapiro eventually became the treasurer of the Maine Democratic Party The Maine Democratic Party is the affiliate of the Democratic Party in the U.S. state of Maine. After the Civil War, Democrats were a minor player in a political scene dominated by the Republican Party. However, during the 1950s, Edmund Muskie l ... for thirteen years. He served as state treasurer of Maine from 1981 to 1996. References 1927 births Living people Jewish American people in Maine politics People from Waterville, Maine People fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shmuel Shapiro
Shmuel Shapiro ( he, שמואל שפירו, a French Jewish rabbi, hazzan, singer, composer, lecturer, and former Chief Rabbi of Meurthe-et-Moselle and Nancy, France, was born in Aix-les-Bains, France, on 26 January 1974. Biography His mother, Elisheva, is a musician and a lecturer in Judaism, and his father, David-Nathan, served as the rabbi of Clermont-Ferrand and Vichy. The family immigrated to Israel when he was nine years old. He studied at the Ohel Shimon Erloy yeshivot in Jerusalem where he placed second in a Talmudic competition at the age of twelve. He began composing music at the age of eleven, and by the time he was seventeen he was the principal cantorial singer in the Erlau Hasidic community. After completing his studies in psychology and Jewish philosophy, he taught Judaism at the French-speaking Or Gabriel yeshiva in Jerusalem. In 1994, he studied in a Kollel institute and taught in remedial education at the Tsafnat Panea'h school in Jerusalem. He stud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |