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.
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. [2] Voorhees was of Dutch descent. [3]
New Jersey's Voorhees Township,Voorhees High School,Voorhees dorm at Rutgers and Voorhees State Park,his former farm,are named in his honor. [4] [5]
Garret Augustus Hobart was an American politician and businessman who was the 24th vice president of the United States,serving from 1897 until his death in 1899,under President William McKinley. A member of the Republican Party,Hobart was an influential New Jersey businessman,politician,and political operative prior to his vice presidency.
Voorhees Township is a township in Camden County,in the U.S. state of New Jersey. The township is a suburb in the Delaware Valley / Greater Philadelphia Metropolitan Area. As of the 2020 United States census,the township's population was 31,069,an increase of 1,938 (+6.7%) from the 2010 census count of 29,131,which in turn reflected an increase of 1,005 (+3.6%) from the 28,126 counted in the 2000 census.
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