Background
Shapiro was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania to immigrant parents from Ukraine and Lithuania.
Shapiro was born in Brownsville, Pennsylvania to immigrant parents from Ukraine and Lithuania.
University of Pittsburgh.
A Democrat, Shapiro served from 1981 to 1996 as State Treasurer of Maine. He spent two years in the United States. Navy and then attended the University of Pittsburgh on the G.I. bill. 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.
He served as state treasurer of Maine from 1981 to 1996.
