NEW JERSEY


US STATE OF NEW JERSEY

The English colony of New Jersey was founded in 1665. It declared its independence in 1776 and became an original State of the Union. __________________________________________________________________________________

STATE OFFICERS

Governors 1845 - 1848 Charles Creighton Stratton 1796 - 1859 1848 - 1851 Daniel Haines (2x) 1801 - 1877 1851 - 1854 George Franklin Fort 1809 - 1872 1854 - 1857 Rodman McCamley Price 1816 - 1894 1857 - 1860 William Augustus Newell 1817 - 1901 1860 - 1863 Charles Smith Olden 1799 - 1876 1863 - 1866 Joel Parker 1816 - 1888 1866 - 1869 Marcus Lawrence Ward 1812 - 1884 1869 - 1872 Theodore Fitz Randolph 1826 - 1883 1872 - 1875 Joel Parker (2x) 1875 - 1878 Joseph Dorsett Bedle 1821 - 1894 1878 - 1881 George Brinton McClellan 1826 - 1885 1881 - 1884 George Craig Ludlow 1830 - 1900 1884 - 1887 Leon Abbett 1836 - 1894 1887 - 1890 Robert Stockton Green 1831 - 1895 1890 - 1893 Leon Abbett (2x) 1893 - 1896 George Theodore Werts 1846 - 1910 1896 - 1898 John William Griggs 1849 - 1927 1898 Foster MacGowan Voorhees 1856 - 1927 1898 - 1899 David Ogden Watkins* 1862 - 1938 1899 - 1902 Foster MacGowan Voorhees (2x) 1902 - 1905 Franklin Murphy 1846 - 1920 1905 - 1908 Edward Casper Stokes 1860 - 1942 1908 - 1911 John Franklin Fort 1852 - 1920 1911 - 1913 Thomas Woodrow Wilson 1856 - 1924 1913 - 1913 James Fairman Fielder 1867 - 1954 1913 - 1914 Leon R. Taylor* 1883 - 1924 1914 - 1917 James Fairman Fielder (2x) 1917 - 1919 Walter Evans Edge 1873 - 1956 1919 - 1920 William Nelson Runyon* 1871 - 1931 1920 Clarence Edwards Case* 1877 - 1961 1920 - 1923 Edward Irving Edwards 1863 - 1931 1923 - 1926 George Sebastian Silzer 1870 - 1940 1926 - 1929 Arthur Harry Moore 1879 - 1952 1929 - 1932 Morgan Foster Larson 1882 - 1961 1932 - 1935 Arthur Harry Moore (2x) 1935 Clifford Ross Powell* 1893 - 1973 1935 Horace Griggs Prall* 1881 - 1951 1935 - 1938 Harold Giles Hoffman 1896 - 1954 1938 - 1941 Arthur Harry Moore (3x) 1941 - 1944 Charles Edison 1890 - 1969 1944 - 1947 Walter Evans Edge (2x)
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