Foster MacGowan Voorhees

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.

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^[1], as well as Voorhees State Park.

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^ 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."

Preceded by John W. Griggs	Acting Governor of New Jersey February 1, 1898 – October 18, 1898	Succeeded by David Ogden Watkins
Preceded by David Ogden Watkins	Governor of New Jersey January 17, 1899 – January 21, 1902	Succeeded by Franklin Murphy

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