Samuel Shapiro (born August 26, 1927) is an American politician in the state of Maine.
A Democrat, Shapiro served from 1981 to 1996 as State Treasurer of Maine.
[1] Shapiro was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania to Jewish immigrant parents from Ukraine and Lithuania.
He then moved to Waterville, Maine, where he ran several furniture stores owned by his father-in-law.
Shapiro eventually became the treasurer of the Maine Democratic Party for thirteen years.