After Cambridge, he began practicing law in
New York,[12] as a criminal defense lawyer.[1] 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.[1]
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.[13]
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.[17] Ultimately, he was defeated,[18] and his candidacy was opposed by
Hearst, who lampooned him in a series of cartoons.
On September 24, 1890, Chanler married Alice Chamberlain (1868–1955),[22] at
St George's, Hanover Square, in London.[23] Alice was a daughter of the late W. L. Chamberlain.[24] 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.[25] She died in 1952 and he later married Mary Kroehle.[26] 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.[27]
William Chamberlain Chanler (1895–1981), who married Frances Randall Williams[28]
On May 23, 1921, the 52 year old Chanler married
Julia Lynch Olin (1882–1961),[29] also a recent divorcee with two daughters of her own, in Paris.[4] 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.[4] In 1922, the family bought a new home at 132 East 65th Street, in
New York City.[30][31] This house was later christened Caravan House.[32][33]
Chanler died on February 28, 1942, at his home in New York City at age 72.[1] 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]
^Winthrop Family 1404-2002 Chanler's grandfather John White Chanler married Elizabeth Shirreff Winthrop, daughter of Benjamin Winthrop and Judith Stuyvesant (Peter's daughter)
^Thomas, Lately. The Astor Orphans: A Pride of Lions, W. Morrow, 1971.
^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:
"Chanler, Lewis Stuyvesant (CHNR894LS)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.