Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler Explained

Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler
Office1:Lieutenant Governor of New York
Term Start1:1 January 1907
Term End1:31 December 1908
Governor1:Charles Evans Hughes
Predecessor1:John Raines (acting)
Successor1:Horace White
Office2:Member of the New York State Assembly from the 2nd Dutchess County district
Term Start2:January 1, 1910
Term End2:December 31, 1912
Predecessor2:Everett H. Travis
Successor2:John Augustus Kelly
Birth Date:September 24, 1869
Birth Place:Newport, Rhode Island, U.S.
Death Place:New York City, New York, U.S.
Alma Mater:Columbia University
Cambridge University
Party:Democrat
Occupation:Lawyer
Parents:John Winthrop Chanler
Margaret Astor Ward
Spouse:
    Children:3
    Relatives:See Astor family

    Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler (September 24, 1869, in Newport, Rhode Island  - February 28, 1942, in New York City) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the lieutenant governor of New York from 1907 to 1908.

    Early life

    He was the fifth son of John Winthrop Chanler (1826–1877) of the Dudley–Winthrop family and Margaret Astor Ward (1838–1875) of the Astor family.[1] Through his father, who served as a U.S. Representative from New York, he was a great-great-grandson of Peter Stuyvesant[2] and a great-great-great-great-grandson of Wait Winthrop and Joseph Dudley. Through his mother, he was a grandnephew of Julia Ward (1819–1910), John Jacob Astor III (1822–1890), and William Backhouse Astor Jr. (1829–1892), and a great-great-grandson of John Jacob Astor.

    Lewis had ten brothers and sisters, including the artist Robert Winthrop Chanler and the soldier and explorer William Astor Chanler.[3] His sister Margaret Livingston Chanler served as a nurse with the American Red Cross during the Spanish–American War.[4] His older brother Winthrop Astor Chanler served in the Rough Riders in Cuba[5] and was wounded at the Battle of Tayacoba.[6] Chanler's eldest brother, John Armstrong Chaloner, married novelist Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy.[7] 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.[8]

    He attended Columbia University Law School and graduated in 1891.[9] Then he attended Cambridge University, matriculating at Trinity College in 1894.

    Career

    After Cambridge, he began practicing law in New York,[10] as a criminal defense lawyer. During the winter 1897, he visited Ireland and became interested in the Parnellite party which was seeking home rule 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 Dutchess County and was a Delegate to several state party conventions. In 1903, he was elected a member of the Dutchess County Board of Supervisors.[11]

    In 1906, he was elected the Lieutenant Governor of New York.[12] [13] He ran on the combined ticket of the Democratic Party and the Independence League, defeating the incumbent M. Linn Bruce, although his running mate William Randolph Hearst was defeated in his quest for the governorship by Republican Charles Evans Hughes,[14] who later became Chief Justice of the United States.

    As the sitting lieutenant governor, he ran as the Democratic candidate for Governor against the incumbent Hughes in 1908, with John Alden Dix as the candidate for Lt. Governor.[15] Ultimately, he was defeated,[16] and his candidacy was opposed by Hearst, who lampooned him in a series of cartoons.

    While a resident of Barrytown, Dutchess County, New York, he was a member of the New York State Assembly (Dutchess Co., 2nd D.) in 1910, 1911 and 1912.[17] [18] Franklin D. Roosevelt 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 senate instead.[19]

    Personal life

    On September 24, 1890, Chanler married Alice Chamberlain (1868–1955),[20] at St George's, Hanover Square, in London.[21] Alice was a daughter of the late W. L. Chamberlain.[22] Before their divorce in 1920, they had three children together:

    On May 23, 1921, the 52 year old Chanler married Julia Lynch Olin (1882–1961),[27] also a recent divorcee with two daughters of her own, in Paris.[28] 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 William Kissam Vanderbilt.[28] In 1922, the family bought a new home at 132 East 65th Street, in New York City.[29] [30] This house was later christened Caravan House.[31] [32]

    Chanler died on February 28, 1942, at his home in New York City at age 72.[33] 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 Baháʼí Faith. Chanler was buried at St Paul's Churchyard in Glen Cove, Long Island.[34]

    Descendants

    He was the grandfather of Susan Chanler (1921–1996),[35] who married Clifford E. Herrick Jr. (1916–1978),[36] Bronson Winthrop Chanler (1922–2009),[37] who married Evelyn Williams Rogers (b. 1931),[37] Clare Chanler (1927–1992), who married Bayard Stuyvesant Forster (1924–2001),[38] and Rosanna Chanler (b. 1930), who married Montgomery Harris (1924–2012).[39] [40]

    Notes and References

    1. News: THE DESCENDANTS OF JOHN JACOB ASTOR.; INCLUDING THE FAMILIES OF BRISTED, WARD, CHANLER, CARY, DE STUERS, DELANO, VAN ALEN, ROOSEVELT, DRAYTON, WILSON, LANGDON, RUMPFF, BORELL, WILKS, KANE, CARROLL, DE NOTBECK, AND JAY.. 11 April 2017. The New York Times. 6 March 1898.
    2. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~dav4is/ODTs/WINTHROP.shtml#WINT161 Winthrop Family 1404-2002
    3. News: PRINCESS ENGAGED TO ASHLEY CHAHLER; Marie Antonia de Braganca Is Daughter of the Pretender to Throne of Portugal. JUNE WEDDING IS PLANNED Fiance, a Descendant of Original John Jacob Astor, Graduated From Harvard in 1932.. 11 April 2017. The New York Times. 23 May 1934.
    4. https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1499&dat=18980908&id=ImIxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=jCAEAAAAIBAJ&pg=2788,5149380 "Margaret Astor Chanler, Heroine of Porto Rico," Milwaukee Journal, Sept 8, 1898, p. 5.
    5. https://books.google.com/books?id=NVlHAAAAYAAJ Rice, 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.
    6. https://www.nytimes.com/1898/07/15/archives/fighting-filibusters-expedition-to-cuba-has-several-brushes-with.html "FIGHTING FILIBUSTERS; Expedition to Cuba Has Several Brushes with Spaniards. GEN. NUNEZ'S BROTHER KILLED Winthrop Chanler of New York and Five Cubans Wounded. Guns of the Peoria Do Great Execution Among the Enemy; Two Shiploads of Supplies for the Insurgents Landed." New York Times, July 14 1898.
    7. https://books.google.com/books?id=dhCRoXp8bsYC&q=Archie+and+Amelie:+Love+and+Madness Donna M. Lucey, Archie and Amélie: Love and Madness in the Gilded Age. New York: Harmony Books, 2007.
    8. Thomas, Lately. The Astor Orphans: A Pride of Lions, W. Morrow, 1971.
    9. Venn, J. A., comp., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Part II. 1752-1900, Vol. ii. Chalmers – Fytche, 1944, p. 8. London: Cambridge University Press, 1922-1954. See also:
    10. Who's Who in America, 1920-1.
    11. New York Secretary of State, New York Red Book, 1912, pages 116-117
    12. Book: Eleanor Roosevelt . Joyce C. Ghee, Joan Spence . 2005 . Arcadia Publishing . 0-7385-3832-9 .
    13. News: CHANLER JUST LEADS ON REVISED RETURNS; New Figures on the Vote Put Him 946 Ahead of Bruce. PROBABLY WILL STAY THERE If He Becomes Lieutenant Governor His Plurality Will Be the Smallest on Record.. 11 April 2017. The New York Times. 9 November 1906.
    14. http://elections.harpweek.com/1908/cartoon-1908-large.asp?UniqueID=33&Year=1908 Harpers Magazine
    15. News: Times. Special To The New York. CHANLER AND DIX FOR DEMOCRATS; Lieutenant Governor Nominated for First Place by Acclamation at Rochester Convention. HUMILIATION FOR McCARREN Murphy Suddenly Offers Anti-McCarren Man for Engineer and He Is Named. INSULT, SAYS THE SENATOR Warns Tammany That It Is Playing a Dangerous Game in Affronting the Democrats of Kings County.. 11 April 2017. The New York Times. 17 September 1908.
    16. News: MR. CHANLER. 11 April 2017. The New York Times. 4 November 1908.
    17. News: Times. Special To The New York. CHANLER FOR ASSEMBLY.; Also Nominee for the Dutchess County Board of Supervisors.. 11 April 2017. The New York Times. 3 October 1909.
    18. News: Times. Special To The New York. TWO OFFICES FOR CHANLER?; Nominated for Supervisor and Friends Want to Name Him for Assembly.. 11 April 2017. The New York Times. 27 September 1909.
    19. Book: Panchyk. Richard. Franklin Delano Roosevelt for Kids: His Life and Times with 21 Activities. 2007. Chicago Review Press. 9781556526572. 21. registration. 30 March 2018. en.
    20. News: Times. Special To The New York. Obituary 1 -- No Title. 11 April 2017. The New York Times. 28 September 1955.
    21. News: SOCIETY TOPICS OF THE WEEK.. 11 April 2017. The New York Times. 12 October 1890.
    22. News: MARRIED CHANLER - CHAMBERLAIN. 11 April 2017. The New York Times. 7 October 1890.
    23. News: MISS MURRAY WEDS LEWIS S. CHANLER; Flora Payne Whitney a Bridesmaid, and Her Fiance, Roderick Tower, an Usher.. 11 April 2017. The New York Times. 18 April 1920.
    24. News: Times. Special To The New York. LEWIS S. CHANLER, BANKER, 72, DEAD Ex-Head of Societe Generale Here--Son of State Aide. 11 April 2017. The New York Times. 3 August 1963.
    25. News: MISS ALIDA CHANLER, BRIDE Ex-Lieut. Governor's Daughter Weds William C. Bohn. 11 April 2017. The New York Times. 10 September 1920.
    26. News: Waggoner. Walter H.. WILLIAM C. CHANLER DIES AT 85; LAWYER WAS COUNSEL FOR CITY. 11 April 2017. The New York Times. 15 July 1981.
    27. News: Mrs. Lewis S. Chanler, 78, Dies; Headed Reform Bahai (sic) Movement; Widow of Former Lieutenant Governor Formed Society in '29 -- Wrote Several Books. 11 April 2017. The New York Times. 12 March 1961.
    28. News: LEWIS S. CHANLER WEDS MRS. BENKARD; Ex-Lieut. Governor of New York Marries Divorced Wife of J. Philip Benkard in Paris. GUARDED WITH SECRECY Mr. Chanler Was Divorced in Paris From His First Wife, Who Was Alice Chamberlain.. 11 April 2017. The New York Times. 25 May 1921.
    29. News: PRIVATE DWELLING SALES.; Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler Buys East Sixty-Fifth Street Residence.. 11 April 2017. The New York Times. 1 February 1922.
    30. News: L. S. Chanler Has a Broken Leg.. 11 April 2017. The New York Times. 16 November 1934.
    31. http://www.h-net.org/~bahai/diglib/books/A-E/C/Chanler/FGTD.htm "From Gaslight to Dawn"
    32. News: HEADS PEACE SOCIETY Mrs. L. S. Chanler Elected by Women's Organization.. 11 April 2017. The New York Times. 2 January 1932.
    33. News: L.S. CHANLER DIES; STATE EX-OFFICIAL Lieutenant Governor, 1906-08, Defeated in Gubernatorial Race by Hughes in 1908 WAS A CRIMINAL LAWYER Defended Clients Who Could Not Pay -- Toured Ireland for Parnellites in '90's. 11 April 2017. The New York Times. 2 March 1942.
    34. News: CITY OFFICIALS ATTEND LEWIS CHANLER RITES; Many Other Friends at Funeral of Ex-Lieutenant Governor. 11 April 2017. The New York Times. 4 March 1942.
    35. Book: Calvin. Scott. Beyond Curie: Four Women in Physics and Their Remarkable Discoveries, 1903 to 1963. 2017. Morgan & Claypool Publishers. 9781681746463. 147–148. 30 March 2018. en.
    36. News: Kentucky Deaths. 30 March 2018. The Courier-Journal. July 30, 1978. 9. en.
    37. News: Paid Notice: Deaths CHANLER, BRONSON WINTHROP. 30 March 2018. The New York Times. April 11, 2009.
    38. News: Paid Notice: Deaths FORSTER, BAYARD STUYVESANT. 30 March 2018. The New York Times. 24 April 2001.
    39. News: Times. Special To the New York. Geraldine Hraban to Be Married. 30 March 2018. The New York Times. January 17, 1971.
    40. Web site: Montgomery Harris Jr.. fhnfuneralhome.com. 30 March 2018. en.

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