Walter Watson Stokes (August 10, 1880 – March 27, 1960) was an American financier and politician from New York.
He was born on August 10, 1880, in Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont,[1] the son of financier Walter C. Stokes (1852–1924)[2] and Adele (Watson) Stokes (1852–1921).
They lived at 829 Park Avenue in Manhattan, and the Stokes family's country home "Woodside Hall" in Cooperstown.
Hannah Sherman was a photo model, famous at the time as "Miss Chesterfield".
He died on March 27, 1960, in Bassett Hospital in Cooperstown, New York; and was buried at the Lakewood Cemetery there.