page_title: Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler
section_title: Political career
hierarchical_section_title: Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler / Career / Political career
caption_attribution_description: English: Title: L.S. Chanler campaigning on Long Isl. [Greenport] Abstract/medium: 1 negative&#160;: glass&#160;; 5 x 7 in. or smaller.
context_page_description: Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler was a New York lawyer and politician who served as Lieutenant Governor of New York from 1907 to 1908.
context_section_description: 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.
  In 1906, he was elected the Lieutenant Governor of New York.  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, 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.  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, he was a member of the New York State Assembly (Dutchess Co., 2nd D.) in 1910, 1911 and 1912. 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.
caption: Chanler campaigning at Greenport, Long Island, 1908
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