Ka cika wannan magana: Sa'ad da Mataimakin Gwamna Thomas W. Wallace ya mutu a ranar 17 ga Yuli, 1943, Hanley ya sake zama mataimakin gwamnan. A cikin zaben jihar New York na 1943, ya ci Democrat William N. Haskell a wani zabe na musamman don mataimakin gwamnan. An sake zabarsa a shekara ta 1946 kuma ya kasance a ofishin har zuwa karshen shekarar 1950. Ya kasance wakili a 1944 da kuma
Taron Jam'iyyar Republican na shekara ta 1948.