John Franklin Fort

John Franklin Fort

Infobox Governor
name= John Franklin Fort


caption=
order=33rd
office= Governor of New Jersey
term_start= January 21, 1908
term_end= January 17, 1911
predecessor= Edward C. Stokes
successor= Woodrow Wilson
spouse= Charlotte E. Stainsby
birth_date= March 20 1852
birth_place= Pemberton, New Jersey
death_date= November 17, 1920
death_place= South Orange, New Jersey
party= Republican
religion=

John Franklin Fort (b. March 20 1852 - d. November 17, 1920) was an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 33rd Governor of New Jersey, from 1908-1911. His uncle, George Franklin Fort, was a Democratic Governor of New Jersey from 1851-1854.

Fort was born in Pemberton, New Jersey on March 20, 1852. He attended the Pennington Seminary, and earned an LL.B. degree at Albany Law School in 1872.

An attorney, Fort was appointed by Governor George B. McClellan, a Democrat, to the First District Court of Newark, a position he held through subsequent Democratic administrations until he stepped down in 1886. Fort was a delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1884 and 1896. In 1900, Governor Foster M. Voorhees appointed him to the New Jersey Supreme Court. Fort was a delegate to the 1912.

In March 1917, President (and former New Jersey Governor) Woodrow Wilson appointed Fort to the Federal Trade Commission, a position he held until November 1919 when he resigned due to illness. He died in his South Orange home on November 17 1920, aged 68, and was buried at Bloomfield Cemetery, Bloomfield in Bloomfield.

ee also

*List of Governors of New Jersey

External links

* [http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/Digital_Collections/Governors_of_New_Jersey/GFORJ.pdf Biography of John Franklin Fort (PDF)] , New Jersey State Library
* [http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=339b3058be3f9010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD New Jersey John Franklin Fort] , National Governors Association
* [http://members.bellatlantic.net/%7Evze2rdt7/DGovs/deadgovernorsnj.html#fort Dead Governors of New Jersey bio for John Franklin Fort]
* [http://members.bellatlantic.net/~vze2rdt7/DGovs/deadgovernorsnj.html#fort Dead Governors information for John Franklin Fort]
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/fort-fossum.html#RJD0SY684 Political Graveyard info for John Franklin Fort]

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