Francis Lynde Stetson (April 23, 1846 – December 5, 1920) was an American lawyer.

He was admitted to the bar in 1869 and practiced in New York City, where he worked chiefly in corporation and railway law, becoming eminent in those domains.

In 1894, he formed the firm of Stetson, Jennings & Russell (a predecessor to the modern-day Davis Polk & Wardwell), which represented J. P. Morgan's United States Steel Corporation; he was also Morgan's personal attorney.

[2] Stetson served as counsel for Samuel J. Tilden in the Tilden-Hayes Affair regarding the 1876 presidential election.

First President of The Stetson Kindred of America, founded in 1905 and still active today (www.theskoa.org)[5]