John Franklin Fort

American judge

John Franklin Fort


33rd Governor of New Jersey
In office January 21, 1908 – January 17, 1911
Preceded by	Edward C. Stokes
Succeeded by	Woodrow Wilson

Personal details
Born	March 20, 1852 Pemberton, New Jersey
Died	November 17, 1920 (aged 68) South Orange, New Jersey
Political party	Republican
Spouse	Charlotte E. Stainsby
Alma mater	Albany Law School (LL.B.)
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John Franklin Fort (March 20, 1852 – November 17, 1920) was an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 33rd governor of New Jersey, from 1908 to 1911. His uncle, George Franklin Fort, was a Democratic Governor of New Jersey from 1851 to 1854.

Biography

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, where he remained until 1907.^[1] Fort was a delegate to the 1912 Republican National Convention.

In 1909 Fort was elected an honorary member of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati.^[2]

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 in Bloomfield.^[3]

References

^ "Appointment by Governor Stokes", Camden Courier-Post (September 26, 1907), p. 3.
^ List of members of the Society of the Cincinnati in the state of New Jersey, July 4, 1911
^ "Governor Fort Dies After Long Illness". The Morning Call. South Orange. November 20, 1920. p. 1. Retrieved December 14, 2020 – via Newspapers.com.

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Biography of John Franklin Fort (PDF), New Jersey State Library
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Dead Governors of New Jersey bio for John Franklin Fort
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Political offices
Preceded by Edward C. Stokes	New Jersey Governor January 21, 1908 – January 17, 1911	Succeeded by Woodrow Wilson
Preceded by David A. Depue	Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of New Jersey 1900 – 1907	Succeeded by Charles Wolcott Parker
Party political offices
Preceded by Edward C. Stokes	Republican Nominee for Governor of New Jersey 1907	Succeeded by Vivian M. Lewis

Governors of New Jersey

Proprietary Province

Carteret

East New Jersey

Carteret
Barclay
Hamilton
Basse
Hamilton

West New Jersey

Byllynge
Coxe
Hamilton
Basse
Hamilton

Dominion of New England
(1688–89)

Andros

Royal governors

Viscount Cornbury
Baron Lovelace
Ingoldesby (Lt. Gov.)
Hunter
Burnet
Montgomerie
Morris (acting)
Cosby
Anderson (acting)
Hamilton (acting)
Lord De La Warr
Morris
Hamilton (acting)
Reading (acting)
Belcher
Reading (acting)
Pownall (Lt. Gov.)
Reading (acting)
Bernard
Boone
Hardy
Franklin

State
(since 1776)

* Under N.J.S.A. 52:15-5 (as amended in 2005), an acting governor serving for 180 continuous days or more is conferred the title of Governor.

v t e Chairs of the Federal Trade Commission
Member-selected (1915–1950)	Joseph E. Davies (1915–1916) • Edward N. Hurley (1916–1917) • William J. Harris (1917–1918) • William Byron Colver (1918–1919) • John Franklin Fort (1919) • Victor Murdock (1919–1920) • Samuel Huston Thompson (1920–1921) • Nelson B. Gaskill (1921–1922) • Victor Murdock (1922–1923) • Samuel Huston Thompson (1923–1924) • Vernon W. Van Fleet (1924–1925) • John F. Nugent (1925–1926) • Charles W. Hunt (1926–1927) • William E. Humphrey (1927–1928) • Abram F. Myers (1928–1929) • Edgar A. McCulloch (1929) • Garland Ferguson Jr. (1930) • Charles W. Hunt (1931) • William E. Humphrey (1932) • Charles H. March (1933) • Garland Ferguson Jr. (1934) • Ewin L. Davis (1935) • Charles H. March (1936) • William Augustus Ayres (1937) • Garland Ferguson Jr. (1938) • Robert E. Freer (1939) • Ewin L. Davis (1940) • Charles H. March (1941) • William Augustus Ayres (1942) • Garland Ferguson Jr. (1943) • Robert E. Freer (1944) • Ewin L. Davis (1945) • William Augustus Ayres (1946) • Garland Ferguson Jr. (1947) • Robert E. Freer (1948) • Lowell B. Mason (1949–1950)
Presidential appointments (1950–present) Acting chairs italicized	James M. Mead (1950–1953) • Edward F. Howrey (1953–1955) • John W. Gwynne (1955–1959) • Earl W. Kintner (1959–1961) • Paul Rand Dixon (1961–1969) • Caspar Weinberger (1970–1970) • Everette MacIntyre (1970–1973) • Lewis A. Engman (1973–1975) • Paul Rand Dixon (1976) • Calvin J. Collier (1976–1977) • Michael Pertschuk (1977–1981) • David A. Clanton (1981) • James C. Miller III (1981–1985) • Terry Calvani (1985–1986) • Daniel Oliver (1986–1989) • Janet Dempsey Steiger (1989–1995) • Robert Pitofsky (1995–2001) • Timothy Muris (2001–2004) • Deborah Platt Majoras (2004–2008) • William Kovacic (2008–2009) • Jon Leibowitz (2009–2013) • Edith Ramirez (2013–2017) • Maureen Ohlhausen (2017–2018) • Joseph Simons (2018–2021) • Rebecca Slaughter (2021) • Lina Khan (2021–present)