Lew Brantley

{{Short description|American politician}}

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}}

{{Infobox officeholder

| name = Lew Brantley

| image = Lew Brantley.jpg

| caption = Brantley in 1968

| birth_name = Lewis Braxton BrantleyU.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007. (via Ancestry)

| birth_date = {{birth date|1937|08|03}}

| birth_place = McRae, Georgia, U.S.

| death_date = {{death date and age|2004|05|11|1937|08|03}}

| death_place = Jacksonville, Florida, U.S.

| term_start2 = 1967

| term_end2 = 1970

| preceded2 = District established

| succeeded2 = Bill Birchfield

| party = Democratic{{Cite news|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/327154382/|title=Excessive spending blamed|work=The Tampa Times|location=Tampa, Florida|date=January 21, 1970|access-date=March 7, 2023|page=1|via=Newspapers.com}} {{Closed access}}

| district2 = 21st

| state_house2 = Florida

| office = President of the Florida Senate

| term_start = November 16, 1976

| district1 = 8th

| state_senate1 = Florida

| termstart1 = November 17, 1970

| preceded1 = John E. Mathews

| successor = Philip D. Lewis

| successor1 = Joe Carlucci

| predecessor = Dempsey J. Barron

| term_end = November 21, 1978

| termend1 = November 21, 1978

| alma_mater = Georgia Institute of Technology
Jacksonville University

}}

Lewis Braxton Brantley (August 3, 1937 – May 11, 2004) was an American politician. He served as a Democratic member for the 21st district of the Florida House of Representatives.{{Cite web|url=http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/fefdl/florida/House19672001.html|title=House of Representatives|access-date=March 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180113095046/http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/fefdl/florida/House19672001.html|archive-date=January 13, 2018|url-status=live|via=Wayback Machine}}{{cite web|url=http://www.myfloridahouse.gov/FileStores/Web/HouseContent/Approved/Public%20Guide/Uploads/Documents/house_counties_final.pdf |title=Membership of the Florida House of Representatives by County 1845-2012|first=Robert|last=Ward|date=August 3, 2011|work=Florida House of Representatives|access-date=March 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220316034642/https://www.myfloridahouse.gov/FileStores/Web/HouseContent/Approved/Public%20Guide/Uploads/Documents/house_counties_final.pdf|archive-date=March 16, 2022|url-status=live|via=Wayback Machine}} He also served as a member for the 8th district of the Florida Senate.{{Citation|title=The People of Lawmaking Florida 1822 – 2019|work=Florida Legislature|date=February 2019}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/fefdl/florida/Senate18452001.html|title=Florida Senators 1845-2001|access-date=March 7, 2023|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070319054913/http://www.uflib.ufl.edu/fefdl/florida/Senate18452001.html|archive-date=March 19, 2007|url-status=live|via=Wayback Machine}} He served as President of the Florida Senate.https://www.flsenate.gov/UserContent/Publications/SenateHandbooks/pdf/76-78_Senate_Handbook.pdf