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Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler (September 24, 1869, in
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– February 28, 1942, in New York City) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the
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from 1907 to 1908.


Early life

He was the fifth son of John Winthrop Chanler of the Dudley–Winthrop family and Margaret Astor Ward of the
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. Through his father, who served as a
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from
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, he was a great-great-grandson of
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and a great-great-great-great-grandson of Wait Winthrop and
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. Through his mother, he was a grandnephew of Julia Ward,
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, and William Backhouse Astor Jr., and a great-great-grandson of
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. Lewis had ten brothers and sisters, including the artist Robert Winthrop Chanler and the soldier and explorer William Astor Chanler. His sister Margaret Livingston Chanler served as a nurse with the
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during the
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. His older brother Winthrop Astor Chanler served in the
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in CubaRice, Wallace, editor. ''Heroic Deeds in Our War with Spain: An Episodic History of the Fighting of 1898 on Sea and Shore'', G.M. Hill, 1898.
/ref> and was wounded at the Battle of Tayacoba. Chanler's eldest brother, John Armstrong Chaloner, married novelist Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy. Chanler and his siblings became orphans after the death of their mother in 1875 and their father in 1877, both to pneumonia. John Winthrop Chanler's will provided $20,000 a year for each child for life (equivalent to $470,563 in 2018 dollars), enough to live comfortably by the standards of the time. The children were raised at their parents' estate, Rokeby, in Barrytown, New York.Thomas, Lately. ''The Astor Orphans: A Pride of Lions'', W. Morrow, 1971. He attended
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and graduated in 1891. Then he attended
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, matriculating at Trinity College in 1894.


Career

After Cambridge, he began practicing law in
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, as a criminal defense lawyer. During the winter 1897, he visited Ireland and became interested in the Parnellite party which was seeking
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for Ireland. He toured the country for several years, making speeches on behalf of home rule.


Political career

Chanler was active in the Democratic Party in
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and was a Delegate to several state party conventions. In 1903, he was elected a member of the Dutchess County Board of Supervisors. In
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, he was elected the
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. He ran on the combined ticket of the Democratic Party and the
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, defeating the incumbent
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, although his running mate
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was defeated in his quest for the governorship by Republican
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, who later became
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. As the sitting lieutenant governor, he ran as the Democratic candidate for
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against the incumbent Hughes in
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, with
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as the candidate for Lt. Governor. Ultimately, he was defeated, and his candidacy was opposed by Hearst, who lampooned him in a series of cartoons. While a resident of Barrytown,
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, he was a member of the
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(Dutchess Co., 2nd D.) in
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,
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and
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.
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had at first thought of running for this seat in the assembly, but Chanler refused to give it up. Thus, Roosevelt ran in November 1910 for the
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instead.


Personal life

On September 24, 1890, Chanler married Alice Chamberlain, at
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, in London. Alice was a daughter of the late W. L. Chamberlain. Before their divorce in 1920, they had three children together: * Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler Jr. (1891–1963), who married Leslie Alice Murray (1898–1952) in 1920. She died in 1952 and he later married Mary Kroehle. Lewis and Leslie had four children: Susan Patricia ''Chanler'' Herrick (1921–1996); Bronson Winthrop Chanler (1922–2009); Clare ''Chanler'' Forster (1927–1992), who married Bayard Stuyvesant Forster (1924–2001), a distant relative; and Rosanna ''Chanler'' Harris (1930-). * Alida Chanler (1894–1983), who married William Christian Bohn (1895–1977) in 1920. * William Chamberlain Chanler (1895–1981), who married Frances Randall Williams On May 23, 1921, the 52-year-old Chanler married Julia Lynch Olin, also a recent divorcee with two daughters of her own, in Paris. She was previously married to J. Philip Benkard and was the second daughter of Stephen H. Olin. Her mother died in 1882 and her father remarried Emmeline Harriman, the daughter of Oliver Harriman and the sister-in-law of
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. In 1922, the family bought a new home at 132 East 65th Street, in New York City. This house was later christened ''Caravan House''. Chanler died on February 28, 1942, at his home in New York City at age 72. His funeral was conducted at St. Mark's Church in-the-Bowery by Rev. C.A.W. Brocklebank. After the scriptural reading, Mirza Ahmad Sohrab read from "the service for the departed" of the
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. Chanler was buried at St Paul's Churchyard in Glen Cove, Long Island.


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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chanler, Lewis Stuyvesant 1869 births 1942 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Cambridge American expatriates in the United Kingdom Astor Orphans Columbia Law School alumni Lieutenant governors of New York (state) New York (state) Democrats New York (state) lawyers Presidents of the Cambridge Union Lewis Stuyvesant United States Independence Party politicians Chanler family Winthrop family 20th-century members of the New York State Legislature