Vernon Spitler Shaffer (February 20, 1884 – May 3, 1958) was an American farmer and Republican politician who represented Shenandoah County in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1950 until his death in 1958.
Shenandoah County voters elected Vernon S. Shaffer their delegate to the Virginia General Assembly in November 1949.
During his last three terms, the Massive Resistance crisis embroiled Virginia because the Byrd Organization (to which most state Democrats belonged, unofficially) followed the lead of U.S.
Senator Harry F. Byrd, opposing desegregation of Virginia's schools despite the U.S. Supreme Court's decisions in Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 and 1955.
Although greatly outnumbered by Democrats (especially Byrd Democrats), Shaffer's and "Mr. Republican" state senator Ted Dalton's voices were among the few moderates during the 1956 legislative session that did not support an interposition resolution (a political maneuver that interposed the will of the State between the citizens of Virginia and the federal Supreme Court).