Samuel H. Young (Samuel Hollingsworth Young)

Background

Young was born on December 26, 1922, in Casey, Illinois, and grew up in the central Illinois environment reflected in his education at Urbana High School. He graduated from Urbana High School in 1940 and began studies at the University of Illinois.

World War II interrupted his university education. Young served in the United States Army Paratroops from 1943 to 1946, including service with the 13th Airborne Division in the central European campaign, and attained the rank of captain. After the war he returned to the University of Illinois and completed his legal education.

Education

Young graduated from Urbana High School in Urbana, Illinois, in 1940. He then attended the University of Illinois, receiving an LL.B. in 1947 and a J.D. from the University of Illinois Law School in 1948. The University of Illinois, founded in the nineteenth century as a land-grant institution, combined liberal education with professional and scientific training and formed part of the expanding public-university system of the American Midwest.

His education was interrupted by military service during World War II and resumed after his return. He also taught economics at the University of Illinois from 1947 to 1948 and business finance at Northwestern University from 1949 to 1950. Northwestern, established in 1851 near Chicago, had developed into a major private research university with strong professional and business-oriented programs.

Career

Young entered legal practice after admission to the Illinois bar in 1948 and began work in Chicago with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission. His early professional experience in securities law provided a foundation for later public regulatory service and legal writing.

From 1947 to 1948, he taught economics at the University of Illinois, and from 1949 to 1950 he instructed students in business finance at Northwestern University. He served as securities commissioner of Illinois from 1953 to 1955 and then as assistant secretary of state of Illinois from 1955 to 1957. These offices placed him within the state's system of securities regulation and corporate administration during a period of expanding postwar business activity.

Young continued in private legal practice and wrote on securities and corporate law. His documented publications addressed the Illinois Securities Law of 1953, proxy fights, corporate operations, corporate readjustments, transaction guides, and the responsibilities of securities-law practitioners. From 1965 to 1966, he served as financial vice president, secretary, and treasurer of a hospital supply company.

In 1973, Young was elected as a Republican to the United States House of Representatives from Illinois's Tenth Congressional District. He served in the Ninety-third Congress from January 3, 1973, to January 3, 1975, and was an unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1974 and for election to the Ninety-fifth Congress in 1976. He subsequently returned to legal practice and remained associated with trust, estate, corporate, and business law.

Achievements

• Young served as Illinois securities commissioner from 1953 to 1955 and assistant secretary of state from 1955 to 1957, applying his legal experience to state securities and corporate administration.

• He was elected to the United States House of Representatives from Illinois in 1972 and served in the Ninety-third Congress from January 3, 1973, to January 3, 1975.

• Young contributed legal writing on securities regulation, corporate operations, corporate readjustment, and business transactions through professional journals, legal guides, and continuing-education publications.

• He served on the board of the Children's Care Foundation from 1967 to 2005, maintaining a long-term connection with charitable service.

Works

• article

  • Exemptions From Registration Under Illinois Securities Law of 1953

    (Article published in the University of Illinois Law Forum...)

    1961

  • What Every Lawyer Should Know About Proxy Fights

    (Article published in the Illinois Bar Journal in April 19...)

    1957

  • The Illinois Securities Law of 1953

    (Article published in the Illinois Bar Journal in October ...)

    1953

• book chapter

  • Responsibilities of the Securities Law Practitioner

    (Chapter 18 in Securities Law, Second Edition, published b...)

  • Operating Aspects of Illinois Corporations

    (Chapter 10 in Organizing and Advising Illinois Corporatio...)

  • Corporate Law Readjustments

    (Legal publication concerning corporate-law readjustments,...)

    1977

  • Common Operating Aspects of Illinois Corporations

    (Chapter 11 concerning common operating aspects of Illinoi...)

    1984

• legal guide

  • Midwest Transactions Guide

    (Regional legal transactions guide associated with Mathew ...)

  • Illinois Transactions Guide

    (Legal transactions guide associated with Mathew Bender.)

Religion

Young was a Protestant. Protestant Christianity encompasses the churches and movements that emerged from the sixteenth-century Reformation and generally emphasize the authority of scripture, faith, and the responsibilities of individual conscience. His public biography documents the affiliation but does not establish a more specific denomination or distinctive theological position.

Politics

Young was a Republican and participated as a delegate in Illinois Republican conventions from 1951 to 1973. The Republican Party, founded in the 1850s, became one of the two major parties of the United States and during Young's political career generally combined support for limited government, private enterprise, national defense, and constitutional institutions, with important differences among its moderate and conservative currents.

He was elected to the Ninety-third Congress from Illinois and served from January 3, 1973, to January 3, 1975. His congressional career unfolded during a period of Republican national government, postwar institutional change, and debate over the proper scope of federal authority. He later sought reelection in 1974 and 1976 but was unsuccessful.

Membership

Young belonged to professional legal organizations including the American Bar Association, the Illinois State Bar Association, the Chicago Bar Association, the Florida Bar, the Collier County Bar Association, and the District of Columbia Bar. His bar-association participation accompanied a career that crossed private practice, state regulation, teaching, and federal office.

He also served on the board of the Children's Care Foundation from 1967 to 2005. The foundation's work placed his long-term civic participation in a charitable setting alongside his professional legal activities.

• Member

  Phi Delta Phi , United States

• Member of the Board of Governors from 1958 to 1959 and secretary from 1959 to 1961.

  Chicago Bar Association , United States

  1958 - 1961

• Member and committee participant.

  Illinois State Bar Association , United States

• Member.

  American Bar Association , United States

• Member admitted to the Florida bar.

  The Florida Bar , United States

  1978

• Member.

  Collier County Bar Association , United States

• Member.

  District of Columbia Bar , United States

• Served on the board.

  Children's Care Foundation , United States

  1967 - 2005

Connections

Young was married to Bonnie Young for 67 years. They had three children: Elisabeth, Samuel, and Bonnie Ellen, and ten grandchildren and seven great-grandchildren.

Young maintained residences in Glenview, Illinois, and Marco Island, Florida, during his later years. He died at his home in Glenview on September 23, 2017.

Wife:

Bonnie Young

Young's wife for 67 years.

Daughter:

Elisabeth Young

Son:

Samuel Young

Daughter:

Bonnie Ellen Young

References

• Biographical Directory of the United States Congress: Samuel Hollingsworth Young Official congressional biography documenting Young's birth, education, military service, legal and state-government career, congressional service, political affiliation, candidacies, residences, and death.
• Florida Bar Member Profile: Samuel Hollingsworth Young Professional profile documenting Young's Florida bar admission, retired status, University of Illinois law degree, professional corporation, and trusts-and-estates practice.
• Samuel Young obituary, Daily Herald Obituary documenting Young's family, military service, public offices, congressional career, charitable board service, residences, and death in Glenview.
  2017
• Young v. Murphy United States Court of Appeals case involving Samuel H. Young and an estate-related dispute.
  1996