Political party Republican Succeeded by Franklin Murphy Party Republican Party | Education Rutgers University Name Foster Voorhees Resigned January 21, 1902 | |
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Preceded by David Ogden Watkins
Acting Governor Preceded by John W. Griggs
Governor Born November 5, 1856
Clinton, New Jersey ( 1856-11-05 ) Role Former Governor of New Jersey Died June 14, 1927, High Bridge, New Jersey, United States Previous office Governor of New Jersey (1899–1902) | ||
Foster McGowan 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.
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Biography
Voorhees 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. He died of chronic myocarditis on his farm in High Bridge, New Jersey and was interred at Riverside Cemetery in Clinton, New Jersey.
Legacy
New Jersey's Voorhees Township, Voorhees High School, Voorhees dorm at Rutgers and Voorhees State Park, his former farm, are named in his honor.