Samuel Hazard Gillespie, Jr.

Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr. (July 12, 1910 – March 7, 2011) was an American lawyer and politician from New York. Biography Gillespie was born in Morristown, New Jersey, and attended Yale College (1932) and Yale Law School (1935). He gained experience as the principal assistant for 15 years to former U.S. Solicitor General John W. Davis, and argued four cases in the United States Supreme Court. Gillespie was president of the New York State Bar Association from 1958 to 1959, and U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York from 1959 to 1961. While US Attorney he prosecuted the US government's obscenity case against the novel Lady Chatterley's Lover.

Recent years He was chairman of the American Skin Association and a member of the Piermont Public Library board of directors. Gillespie was president of the Tappan Zee Preservation Coalition, Inc.

Death Gillespie died of pancreatic cancer on March 7, 2011, at his home in Nyack, New York. He was 100 years old.