Saul Weprin

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

[1] In the late 1950s he became president of his cooperative apartment board in Hollis, Queens, in 1962 he became Democratic leader of the 24th Assembly District.

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

[1] 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,[4] when she was eight years old.

[5] He died on February 11, 1994, at the Long Island Jewish Medical Center in Queens from complications resulting from a stroke.