November 24, 1994(1994-11-24) (aged 82) Merion, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Political party
Democratic
Spouses
Harriet Nolte
(m. 1939; div. 1947)
Muriel Matzkin
(m. 1947)
Children
3
Education
Case Western Reserve University (BS)
Military service
Branch/service
United States Army
Years of service
1942–1946
Rank
Captain
Unit
Army Signal Corps
Battles/wars
World War II
Milton Jerrold Shapp (born Milton Jerrold Shapiro; June 25, 1912 – November 24, 1994) was an American businessman and politician who served as the 40th governor of Pennsylvania from 1971 to 1979 and the first Jewish governor of Pennsylvania. He was also the first governor of Pennsylvania to be eligible for, and re-elected to, consecutive four-year terms per the 1968 Pennsylvania Constitution.
Milton Jerrold Shapp (born Milton Jerrold Shapiro; June 25, 1912 – November 24, 1994) was an American businessman and politician who served as the 40th...
Governor MiltonShapp of Pennsylvania unsuccessfully sought the Democratic Party nomination for president of the United States in the 1976 election. Shapp won...
Pennsylvania gubernatorial election was held on November 3. Democrat MiltonShapp challenged incumbent Republican Lieutenant Governor Ray Broderick. Lieutenant...
state's highest office after holding off a charge from future governor MiltonShapp. Ray Shafer, incumbent Lieutenant Governor Harold Stassen, former president...
Carey, Thomas Eagleton, Eugene McCarthy, Gary Hart, Ella Grasso, and MiltonShapp with 1% each; and Brendan Byrne, Terry Sanford, Frank Church, Mo Udall...
down on government corruption, at a time when more than 60 persons in the Shapp administration were indicted on criminal charges. Thornburgh and Scranton...
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gubernatorial election was held on November 7, 1978. Incumbent Governor MiltonShapp was constitutionally ineligible to run for a third consecutive term in...
consecutive terms, with no lifetime limit. Under the 1968 constitution, MiltonShapp was the first governor to serve two terms, and Tom Corbett was the first...
collaborated on a well-received political film for Pennsylvania governor MiltonShapp in 1966. That year, Guggenheim moved his company and his family to Washington...
African-American member of the state Public Utility Commission (PUC), Governor MiltonShapp began actively searching for one. His aide, Terry Dellmuth, knew Goode...
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(1902–1977), founder of the Chester H. Roth Company (now Kayser-Roth) MiltonShapp (1912–1994), founder of cable television equipment manufacturing company...
Inquirer to cast doubt on the candidacy of Democrat MiltonShapp for governor of Pennsylvania. Shapp was highly critical of the proposed merger of the Pennsylvania...
The Pennsylvania Council for Sexual Minorities is formed by Governor Milton J. Shapp of Pennsylvania. 29 — New York City's public radio channel, WNET, airs...
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his team as the "Molly Maguire Ticket". In 1979, Pennsylvania Governor MiltonShapp granted a posthumous pardon to John "Black Jack" Kehoe after an investigation...
Acting Governor from June 4, 1977, to January 15, 1979 Pennsylvania MiltonShapp Democratic January 19, 1971 January 16, 1979 Pennsylvania's first Jewish...
National Park Service, historic preservationists, local residents, and MiltonShapp, the governor of Pennsylvania from 1971 to 1979, who led unsuccessful...
He is the third Jewish governor in the history of Pennsylvania, after MiltonShapp (1971–1979) and Ed Rendell (2003–2011). He is also the state's first...
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