After his service tenure, he became an investigator in The Brooklyn Corporation Counsel's Office, and in 1962, he was appointed junior attorney in The City Of New York Law Department.

Sam helped to create and manage the local #26 school board of Brooklyn, New York.

He was instrumental in the election for former Governor of New York Hugh Carey, Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Congressman Charles Rangel, as well as former President Jimmy Carter.

After retirement in 1994 and moving to Hilton Head he became a member of The Mount Calvary Missionary Baptist Church.

He died of Parkinson's disease on January 20, 1998, in Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, at age 72.