Foster MacGowan Voorhees

Foster MacGowan Voorhees (November 5, 1856ndash June 14, 1927) was an American, Republican Party politician, who served as the 30th Governor of New Jersey from 1899 to 1902.

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.

New Jersey's Voorhees Township is named in his honor [ [http://voorheesnj.com/content/history/ History of Voorhees] , Voorhees Township, New Jersey. Accessed August 1, 2007. "Voorhees Township was named in honor of Foster McGowan Voorhees, the governor of New Jersey who granted the petition for Voorhees to become a separate township on March 3, 1899."] , as well as Voorhees State Park.

References

See also

*List of Governors of New Jersey

External links

* [http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/Digital_Collections/Governors_of_New_Jersey/GVOOR.pdf Biography of Foster MacGowan Voorhees (PDF)] , New Jersey State Library
* [http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=24d404e4964e9010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD New Jersey Governor Foster McGowan Voorhees] , National Governors Association
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/voorhees.html#RJD0VWMAP Political Graveyard biography]
* [http://members.bellatlantic.net/%7Evze2rdt7/DGovs/deadgovernorsnj.html#voorhees Dead Governors of New Jersey bio for Foster M. Voorhees]