11 Facts About Saul Weprin

Saul Weprin was an American attorney and politician.

Saul Weprin was a Democratic member from Queens County of the New York State Assembly, and served as its Speaker from December 1991 until his death.

Saul Weprin was born in Brooklyn, to Jewish parents who had emigrated from the Kyiv area.

Saul Weprin went to Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn, and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1948 and Brooklyn Law School in 1951.

Saul Weprin served in the United States Coast Guard in 1945.

On November 2,1971, Weprin was elected to the New York State Assembly, to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Martin Rodell, and took his seat in the 179th New York State Legislature during the special session in December 1971.

Saul Weprin was re-elected several times, and remained in the Assembly until his death in 1994, sitting in the 180th, 181st, 182nd, 183rd, 184th, 185th, 186th, 187th, 188th, 189th, 190th New York State Legislatures.

Saul Weprin was an opponent of the death penalty and a supporter of abortion rights.

Saul Weprin pushed the first gay rights bill through the Assembly, sought to increase state aid for schools in New York, and defended the state's Medicaid and welfare programs against cuts proposed by the Republican-controlled Senate.

Saul Weprin married Sylvia Matz in 1950, a biology teacher, who was born in Cuba and emigrated to the United States with her family in 1938, when she was eight years old.

Saul Weprin died on February 11,1994, at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens from complications resulting from a stroke.