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
1900 Republican National Convention
1900 Republican National Convention
Foster McGowan Voorhees