Source: ACBL Dictionary

Samuel Stayman of Palm Beach, Florida, retired portfolio manager, investor and bridge author. Graduate of Dartmouth College and Tuck Business College. In the June 1945 issue of The Bridge World he described a convention, invented by his then partner George Rapee, which subsequently became known as the Stayman convention. He made other contributions to the theory of the game, including Namyats (Stayman spelled backwards).

He was a contributing editor to the Official Encyclopedia of Bridge.