Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler (September 24, 1869 in
Newport, Rhode Island
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– February 28, 1942 in
New York City
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) was an American lawyer and politician who served as
Lieutenant Governor of New York
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from 1907 to 1908.
Early life
He was the fifth son of
John Winthrop Chanler
John Winthrop Chanler (September 14, 1826 – October 19, 1877) was a prominent New York lawyer and a U.S. Representative from New York. He was a member of the Dudley–Winthrop family and married Margaret Astor Ward, a member of the Astor family ...
(1826–1877) of the Dudley–Winthrop family and Margaret Astor Ward (1838–1875) of the
Astor family. Through his father, who served as a
U.S. Representative from
New York
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, he was a great-great-grandson of
Peter Stuyvesant
Peter Stuyvesant (; in Dutch also ''Pieter'' and ''Petrus'' Stuyvesant, ; 1610 – August 1672)Mooney, James E. "Stuyvesant, Peter" in p.1256 was a Dutch colonial officer who served as the last Dutch director-general of the colony of New Ne ...
and a great-great-great-great-grandson of
Wait Winthrop
Waitstill Winthrop (27 February 1642 – 7 November 1717) was a colonial magistrate, military officer, and politician of New England.
Early life
Winthrop was born on 27 February 1642 in Boston, the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He wa ...
and
Joseph Dudley
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. Through his mother, he was a grandnephew of
Julia Ward (1819–1910),
John Jacob Astor III
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(1822–1890), and
William Backhouse Astor, Jr.
William Backhouse Astor Jr. (July 12, 1829 – April 25, 1892) was an American businessman, racehorse owner/breeder, and yachtsman who was a member of the prominent Astor family. His elder brother, financier and philanthropist John Jacob Astor II ...
(1829–1892), and a great-grandson of
John Jacob Astor.
Lewis had ten brothers and sisters, including the artist
Robert Winthrop Chanler
Robert Winthrop Chanler (February 22, 1872 – October 24, 1930) was an American artist and member of the Astor and Dudley–Winthrop families. A designer and muralist, Chanler received much of his art training in France at the École des Beaux ...
and the soldier and explorer
William Astor Chanler
William Astor "Willie" Chanler (June 11, 1867 – March 4, 1934) was an American soldier, explorer, and politician who served as U.S. Representative from New York. He was a son of John Winthrop Chanler. After spending several years exploring Ea ...
. His sister
Margaret Livingston Chanler
Margaret Livingston Chanler Aldrich (1870–1963) was an American philanthropist, poet, nurse, and woman's suffrage advocate. She served as a nurse with the American Red Cross during the Spanish–American War and Philippine–American War, trav ...
served as a nurse with the
American Red Cross
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during the
Spanish–American War
, partof = the Philippine Revolution, the decolonization of the Americas, and the Cuban War of Independence
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. His older brother
Winthrop Astor Chanler
Winthrop Astor Chanler (October 14, 1863 – August 24, 1926) was an American sportsman and soldier who fought in the Spanish–American War and World War I.
Chanler, a descendant of many prominent American families including the Dudley–Winthr ...
served in the
Rough Riders
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in Cuba
[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.](_blank)
/ref> and was wounded at the Battle of Tayacoba
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Background
On June 25 ...
. Chanler's eldest brother, John Armstrong Chaloner
John "Archie" Armstrong Chaloner (né Chanler; October 10, 1862 – June 1, 1935) was an American writer and activist, known for his catch phrase "Who's looney now?".
Early life
Chaloner was born John Armstrong Chanler on October 10, 1862 to Mar ...
, married novelist Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy
Princess Amélie Rives Troubetzkoy (August 23, 1863 – June 15, 1945) was an American author of novels, poetry, and plays. ''The Quick or the Dead?'' (1888), her first novel, which sold 300,000 copies, created more of a sensation than any of her ...
. 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
Barrytown is a hamlet (and census-designated place) within the town of Red Hook in Dutchess County, New York, United States. It is within the Hudson River Historic District, a National Historic Landmark, and contains four notable Hudson River V ...
.[Thomas, Lately. ''The Astor Orphans: A Pride of Lions'', W. Morrow, 1971.]
He attended Columbia University Law School
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and graduated in 1891. Then he attended Cambridge University
, mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts.
Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge.
, established =
, other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...
, matriculating in 1894.
Career
After Cambridge, he began practicing law in New York
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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 home rule
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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 Dutchess County
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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 1906, he was elected the Lieutenant Governor of New York
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. He ran on the combined ticket of the Democratic Party and the Independence League
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, defeating the incumbent M. Linn Bruce, although his running mate William Randolph Hearst
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was defeated in his quest for the governorship by Republican
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** Republicanism, the ideology in support of republics or agains ...
Charles Evans Hughes
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, who later became Chief Justice of the United States.
As the sitting lieutenant governor, he ran as the Democratic candidate for Governor
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against the incumbent Hughes in 1908, with John Alden Dix
John Alden Dix (December 25, 1860 – April 9, 1928) was an American businessman and politician who served as 38th Governor of New York from January 1911 to January 1913.
A native of Glens Falls, New York, Dix attended Cornell University bef ...
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, Dutchess County, New York
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, he was a member of the New York State Assembly
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(Dutchess Co., 2nd D.) in 1910
Events
January
* January 13 – The first public radio broadcast takes place; live performances of the operas '' Cavalleria rusticana'' and ''Pagliacci'' are sent out over the airwaves, from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York C ...
, 1911
A notable ongoing event was the race for the South Pole.
Events January
* January 1 – A decade after federation, the Northern Territory and the Australian Capital Territory are added to the Commonwealth of Australia.
* ...
and 1912
Events January
* January 1 – The Republic of China is established.
* January 5 – The Prague Conference (6th All-Russian Conference of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party) opens.
* January 6
** German geophysicist Alfred ...
. 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
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instead.
Personal life
On September 24, 1890, Chanler married Alice Chamberlain (1868–1955), at St George's, Hanover Square, 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 (1882–1961), 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 William Kissam Vanderbilt
William Kissam "Willie" Vanderbilt I (December 12, 1849 – July 22, 1920) was an American heir, businessman, philanthropist and horsebreeder. Born into the Vanderbilt family, he managed his family's railroad investments.
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William Kiss ...
. In 1922, the family bought a new home at 132 East 65th Street, in New York City
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. 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
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by Rev. C.A.W. Brocklebank. After the scriptural reading, Mirza Ahmad Sohrab
Mírzá Aḥmad Sohráb (March 21, 1890 – April 20, 1958) was a Persian-American author and Baháʼí who served as ʻAbdu'l-Bahá's secretary and interpreter from 1912 to 1919. He co-founded the New History Society and the Caravan of East an ...
read from "the service for the departed" of the Baháʼí Faith
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. Chanler was buried at St Paul's Churchyard in Glen Cove, Long Island.
Descendants
He was the grandfather of Susan Chanler (1921–1996), who married Clifford E. Herrick, Jr. (1916–1978), Bronson Winthrop Chanler (1922–2009), who married Evelyn Williams Rogers (b. 1931), Clare Chanler (1927–1992), who married Bayard Stuyvesant Forster (1924–2001), and Rosanna Chanler (b. 1930), who married Montgomery Harris (1924–2012).
References
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