Foster MacGowan Voorhees
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Foster MacGowan Voorhees (November 5, 1856 – June 14, 1927) was an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 30th Governor of New Jersey, from 1899 to 1902.
Voorhes represented Union County in the New Jersey Senate from 1895 to 1898. As President of the Senate, he became acting governor briefly in 1898 when John W. Griggs resigned to become the Attorney General of the United States and again as an elected governor from 1899 to 1902. He was a New Jersey delegate to the 1900 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
New Jersey's Voorhees Township is named in his honor.
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- New Jersey State Library biography for Foster MacGowan Voorhees (PDF)
- Political Graveyard biography
- Dead Governors of New Jersey bio for Foster M. Voorhees
| Preceded by John W. Griggs |
Governor of New Jersey 1898 as Acting Governor |
Succeeded by David Ogden Watkins |
| Preceded by David Ogden Watkins |
Governor of New Jersey 1899–1902 |
Succeeded by Franklin Murphy |
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| Livingston • Paterson • Howell • Bloomfield • Ogden • W.S. Pennington • M. Dickerson • Williamson • Vroom • Southard • Seeley • P. Dickerson • W. Pennington • Haines • Stratton • Fort • Price • Newell • Olden • Parker • Ward • Randolph • Bedle • McClellan • Ludlow • Abbett • Green • Werts • Griggs • Voorhees • Murphy • Stokes • Fort • Wilson • Fielder • Edge • Edwards • Silzer • Moore • Larson • Hoffman • Edison • Driscoll • Meyner • Hughes • Cahill • Byrne • Kean • Florio • Whitman • DiFrancesco • McGreevey • Codey • Corzine |
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