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
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.[1]
Gillespie was senior counsel at
US Supreme Court case Erie Railroad Co. v. Tompkins. He retired in 1980.[1]
Gillespie was a member of the
Association of the Bar of the City of New York, Federal and American Bar Associations, the New York County Lawyers Association, the American Judicature Society, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Skull and Bones society at Yale.[2]
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.[1]
Gillespie and his wife, Frances, were married from 1977 to 1995, and their boat called "the Venture" was taken for a sail up and down the Hudson River, when it was not sailing down the Intracoastal.[3]
Death
Gillespie died of pancreatic cancer on March 7, 2011, at his home in Nyack, New York. He was 100 years old.[1]
References
Links
- The Most Senior Senior Counsel? A Chat With Hazard Gillespie, blogs.wsj.com, July 14, 2008.