Samuel Chandler Crafts (October 6, 1768 – November 19, 1853) was a United States representative, Senator and the 12th governor of Vermont.

Born in Woodstock in the Colony of Connecticut, Crafts graduated from Harvard College in 1790[1] and moved to Vermont with his parents Mehitible Chandler (sister of the painter Winthrop Chandler), and Ebenezer Crafts, who founded the town of Craftsbury by settling there in 1791.

Crafts was town clerk from 1799 to 1829 and was a delegate to the Vermont Constitutional convention in 1793 where he was the youngest member.

Crafts made an extensive botanical reconnaissance of the Mississippi Valley in 1802.

[2] This Council consisted of twelve men and shared executive power with the Governor.