Background
Shafer, Raymond Philip was born on March 5, 1917 in New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of David Philip and Mina Belle (Miller) Shafer.
Shafer, Raymond Philip was born on March 5, 1917 in New Castle, Pennsylvania, United States. Son of David Philip and Mina Belle (Miller) Shafer.
AB cum laude, Allegheny College, 1938; Doctor of Laws, Allegheny College, 1963; Bachelor of Laws, Yale, 1941; honorary Doctor of Laws degrees.
Worked at Shafer, Swick, Bailey, Irwin, Stack & Millin (Meadville, Pennsylvania) specializing in General Civil and Trial Practice in all State and Federal Courts. Personal Injury and Insurance Law. Real Estate, Business and Family Law.
Probate and Estate Planning, Workers Compensation and Creditor"s Rights.
Admitted to the bar, 1942, Pennsylvania and New New York 1950, United States. District Court, Western District of Pennsylvania.
Phi Beta Kappa. Phi Delta Phi. District Attorney, Crawford County, Pennsylvania, 1948-1956.
State Senator, Pennsylvania, 1958-1962.
Lieutenant Governor, 1963-1966. Governor, 1967-1971, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Chairman, National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse, 1971-1978.
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, Allegheny College, 1972.
President, Allegheny College, 1985-1986. Member: Crawford County (President, 1961-1963), Pennsylvania and American Bar Associations.
(Also Of Counsel, Dunaway & Cross, Washington, District of Columbia). Shafer, Swick, Bailey, Irwin, Stack & Millin is a team of professionals whose goal is to provide quality legal services to our clients for fair and reasonable compensation.
Our mission is to deliver reliable and cost effective legal representation to all types of clients in our communityindividuals, partnerships, and corporations.
By utilizing the knowledge and experience of all members of the firm, we undertake to represent our clients as we would want to be represented. In the appropriate difficult legal situation, our concept allows each attorney to provide the client with the collective wisdom, skill, and experience of the team The firm is listed in the Bar Register of Preeminent Lawyers under the General Practice Section.
Chairman National Commission on Marijuana and Drug Abuse. Chairman National Committee United States-China Relations, 1982-1992. Chairman National Council on Public Service.
World board governors United Service Organizations. Member advisory board American Enterprise Institute. Active charitable, community drives.
Board directors, vice chairman Atlantic Council United States, American-China Society. Trustee Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Freedoms Found. Vice chairman National Legal Center Public Interest.
With United States Naval Reserve, 1942-1945, PTO. Member American Bar Association, Pennsylvania Bar Association, Crawford County Bar Association (president 1961-1963), Council Foreign Relations, Masons (33d degree), Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Psi.
Son of; married Jane Harris Davies, July 5, 1941. Children: Diane Elizabeth, Raymond Philip, Jane Ellen.