Samuel Hazard Gillespie, Jr. American lawyer and politician, died from pancreatic cancer he was , 100,

Samuel Hazard Gillespie Jr.  was an American lawyer and politician from New York died from pancreatic cancer he was , 100,.

(July 12, 1910 – March 7, 2011)

Biography

Gillespie was born in Morristown, Morris County, New Jersey, and attended Yale College (1932) and Yale Law School (1935).
He gained experience as the principal assistant for 15 years to then 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.
Gillespie was senior counsel at Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York City and had been a member of the firm since 1948. At one point in his career he represented a number of actors and actresses including Mary Pickford and Maurice Chevalier.
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.^{[citation needed]}

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.
Gillespie was married to Frances P Gillespie 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.^[1]
Gillespie died of pancreatic cancer on March 7, 2011, at his home in Nyack, Rockland County, New York.

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