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John Franklin Fort (March 20, 1852 – November 17, 1920) was an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 33rd
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, 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
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, 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
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in 1884 and 1896. In 1900, Governor Foster M. Voorhees appointed him to the
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, where he remained until 1907. Fort was a delegate to the
1912 Republican National Convention The 1912 Republican National Convention was held at the Chicago Coliseum, Chicago, Illinois, from June 18 to June 22, 1912. The party nominated President of the United States, President William Howard Taft and Vice President of the United States, ...
. In 1909 Fort was elected an honorary member of the New Jersey
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. In March 1917, President (and former New Jersey governor)
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appointed Fort to the
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, 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.


See also

* List of governors of New Jersey


References


External links


Biography of John Franklin Fort (PDF)
New Jersey State Library
New Jersey John Franklin Fort
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Dead Governors of New Jersey bio for John Franklin Fort
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