John W. Griggs

Infobox US Cabinet official
name=John William Griggs

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order=44th
title=United States Attorney General
term_start=January 25, 1898
term_end=March 29, 1901
predecessor=Joseph McKenna
successor=Philander C. Knox
birth_date=birth date|1849|7|10|mf=y
birth_place=Newton, New Jersey, U.S.
death_date=death date and age|1927|11|28|1849|07|10
death_place=Paterson, New Jersey, U.S.
party=Republican
spouse=Carolyn Webster Brandt
Laura Elizabeth Price
profession=Politician, Lawyer
order2 =29th
office2 =Governor of New Jersey
term_start2 =January 21, 1896
term_end2 =January 31, 1898
predecessor2 =George Theodore Werts
successor2 =Foster MacGowan Voorhees

John William Griggs (July 10, 1849ndash November 28, 1927) was an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 29th Governor of New Jersey, from 1896 to 1898, stepping down to assume the position as the United States Attorney General from 1898 to 1901.

Born in Newton, New Jersey, he graduated from Lafayette College in 1868, where he became a founding member of the Phi Charge of Theta Delta Chi. Griggs served in the New Jersey General Assembly in 1876 and 1877, and the New Jersey Senate from 1883 through 1888, acting as the president of the Senate in 1886. He was selected as a delegate to the 1888 Republican National Convention from New Jersey.

He was elected Governor of New Jersey and served from 1896 through 1898. He left the state house in 1898 to serve as United States Attorney General under President William McKinley until 1901.

He was one of the first members appointed to the Permanent Court of Arbitration at the Hague, and served from 1901 to 1912. Griggs died on November 28, 1927 in Paterson, New Jersey, and is buried at Cedar Lawn Cemetery in that city.

See also

*List of Governors of New Jersey
*United States Attorney General

External links

* [http://www.njstatelib.org/NJ_Information/Digital_Collections/Governors_of_New_Jersey/GGRIG.pdf Biography of John W. Griggs (PDF)] , New Jersey State Library
* [http://www.nga.org/portal/site/nga/menuitem.29fab9fb4add37305ddcbeeb501010a0/?vgnextoid=eb7204e4964e9010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD&vgnextchannel=e449a0ca9e3f1010VgnVCM1000001a01010aRCRD New Jersey Governor John William Griggs] , National Governors Association
* [http://members.bellatlantic.net/%7Evze2rdt7/DGovs/deadgovernorsnj.html#griggs Dead Governors of New Jersey bio for John W. Griggs]
* [http://politicalgraveyard.com/bio/griffis-grim.html#RH01E7HNH John W. Griggs] , The Political Graveyard
* [http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4837 John W. Griggs profile at Find A Grave]