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Taylor</a> (acting)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Walter_Evans_Edge" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter Evans Edge">Walter Evans Edge</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b><a href="/wiki/Acting_(law)" title="Acting (law)">Acting</a></b></span><br />March 1, 1913 – October 28, 1913</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson" title="Woodrow Wilson">Woodrow Wilson</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">Leon R. Taylor (acting)</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">President of the <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Senate" title="New Jersey Senate">New Jersey Senate</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 14, 1913 – October 28, 1913</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Dyneley_Prince" title="John Dyneley Prince">John Dyneley Prince</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/James_A._C._Johnson" title="James A. C. Johnson">James A. C. Johnson</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the <a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_Senate" title="New Jersey Senate">New Jersey Senate</a> from <a href="/wiki/Hudson_County,_New_Jersey" title="Hudson County, New Jersey">Hudson County</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 15, 1907 – October 28, 1913</td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Preceded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data">James F. Minturn</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align:left"><span class="nowrap">Succeeded by</span></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Charles_M._Egan" title="Charles M. Egan">Charles M. Egan</a></td><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;">Member of the<br /><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey_General_Assembly" title="New Jersey General Assembly">New Jersey General Assembly</a></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b>In office</b></span><br />January 13, 1903 – January 10, 1905</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background:lavender">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><div style="display:inline" class="nickname">James Fairman Fielder</div><br /><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1867-02-26</span>)</span>February 26, 1867<br /><a href="/wiki/Jersey_City,_New_Jersey" title="Jersey City, New Jersey">Jersey City, New Jersey</a><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">December 2, 1954<span style="display:none">(1954-12-02)</span> (aged 87)<br /><a href="/wiki/Newark,_New_Jersey" title="Newark, New Jersey">Newark, New Jersey</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Resting place</th><td class="infobox-data label"><a href="/wiki/Fairmount_Cemetery,_Newark" class="mw-redirect" title="Fairmount Cemetery, Newark">Fairmount Cemetery, Newark</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Political party</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Mabel Cholwell Miller (1874–1953)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below" style="border-top: 1px solid right;"><div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>James Fairman Fielder</b> (February 26, 1867 – December 2, 1954) was an American lawyer and <a href="/wiki/Democratic_Party_(United_States)" title="Democratic Party (United States)">Democratic</a> politician and jurist who served as the 35th <a href="/wiki/Governor_of_New_Jersey" title="Governor of New Jersey">Governor of New Jersey</a> from 1914 to 1917. He had previously served as acting governor in 1913 but stepped down from office to avoid constitutional limits on serving successive terms. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Fairman_Fielder&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>James Fairman Fielder was born in <a href="/wiki/Jersey_City,_New_Jersey" title="Jersey City, New Jersey">Jersey City, New Jersey</a> on February 26, 1867 to <a href="/wiki/George_Bragg_Fielder" class="mw-redirect" title="George Bragg Fielder">George Bragg Fielder</a>, who later served as a United States Representative, and Eleanor A. Brinkerhoff Fielder, a descendant of the early settlers of Jersey City. His uncle, William Brinkerhoff, was the State Senator for Hudson County from 1884 to 1886.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fielder attended Jersey City public schools and boarding school in <a href="/wiki/Norwalk,_Connecticut" title="Norwalk, Connecticut">Norwalk, Connecticut</a>. In 1886, he received an <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Laws" title="Bachelor of Laws">LL.B.</a> from <a href="/wiki/Columbia_Law_School" title="Columbia Law School">Columbia Law School</a> and was admitted to the <a href="/wiki/Hudson_County,_New_Jersey" title="Hudson County, New Jersey">Hudson County</a> bar the following year. He practiced in the law offices of his uncle, who had just left office as State Senator, and was eventually made partner.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_political_career">Early political career</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Fairman_Fielder&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Early political career"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fielder entered politics by serving on the Hudson County Democratic Committee. In 1903 and 1904, he was elected to one-year terms in the State General Assembly.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="State_Senator_(1907–13)"><span id="State_Senator_.281907.E2.80.9313.29"></span>State Senator (1907–13)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Fairman_Fielder&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: State Senator (1907–13)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1906, he was elected to the New Jersey Senate to represent all of <a href="/wiki/Hudson_County,_New_Jersey" title="Hudson County, New Jersey">Hudson County</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As Senator, Fielder served on the committees on Banks and Insurance, the Judiciary, Riparian Rights, Passed Bills, the School for the Deaf Mutes, and the Soldiers' Home.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was a loyal ally of Governor <a href="/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson" title="Woodrow Wilson">Woodrow Wilson</a>; in his final message to the legislature as Governor, Wilson praised Fielder as "a man of proved character, capacity, fidelity and devotion to the public service, a man of the type to which the people of this State desire their public men to conform."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governor_of_New_Jersey_(1913,_1914–17)"><span id="Governor_of_New_Jersey_.281913.2C_1914.E2.80.9317.29"></span>Governor of New Jersey (1913, 1914–17)</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Fairman_Fielder&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Governor of New Jersey (1913, 1914–17)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Acting_Governor_(March–October_1913)"><span id="Acting_Governor_.28March.E2.80.93October_1913.29"></span>Acting Governor (March–October 1913)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Fairman_Fielder&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Acting Governor (March–October 1913)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1912, Governor <a href="/wiki/Woodrow_Wilson" title="Woodrow Wilson">Woodrow Wilson</a> was elected President of the United States. Thus, he was expected to resign as Governor in March 1913, with under a year left on his term. The State Senate President would serve as acting Governor <i>ex officio</i>, thus making the election of the next Senate President a de facto election for Governor.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fielder was elected President at the opening of the session in January 1913 and succeeded to the powers of the Governor when Wilson resigned in March.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As acting Governor, Fielder generally maintained Wilson's opposition to the <a href="/wiki/James_Smith_Jr." title="James Smith Jr.">Smith</a>–Nugent <a href="/wiki/Political_machine" title="Political machine">machine</a> and completed several items on Wilson's agenda, including the enactment of a railroad safety bill and a bill providing for widows' pensions. He also vetoed a special bill for <a href="/wiki/Atlantic_City,_New_Jersey" title="Atlantic City, New Jersey">Atlantic City</a> which would have weakened the city's commission government and potentially led to similar reforms in other cities, including his native Jersey City.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fielder failed to win passage of some more ambitious initiatives, including a call for a constitutional convention and a bill to reform to the state's system for selecting jurors. Despite ostensible control of the Senate, the constitutional convention bill was defeated by Senators from rural counties, who feared that reform could reduce their power in the legislature.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="1913_gubernatorial_election">1913 gubernatorial election</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Fairman_Fielder&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 1913 gubernatorial election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/1913_New_Jersey_gubernatorial_election" title="1913 New Jersey gubernatorial election">1913 New Jersey gubernatorial election</a></div> <p>Within a week of becoming acting Governor, Fielder announced his candidacy for a full term.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> His main rival for the Democratic nomination was <a href="/wiki/H._Otto_Wittpenn" title="H. Otto Wittpenn">H. Otto Wittpenn</a>, the progressive mayor of Jersey City, with whom he competed for Wilson's support. He was also opposed by <a href="/wiki/Frank_S._Katzenbach" title="Frank S. Katzenbach">Frank S. Katzenbach</a>, the former mayor of Trenton who had run twice before.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The campaign was fundamentally settled on July 23, when President Wilson called on Wittpenn to unite the party behind Fielder, who had "backed [Wilson] so consistently, so intelligently, so frankly and honestly throughout my administration ... that I feel I would have no ground whatever upon which to oppose his candidacy."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fielder went on to easily defeat Katzenbach in the September 23 primary with support from the Smith–Nugent machine.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A week after the primary, Fielder attacked the Smith–Nugent machine publicly, seeking to emulate Wilson in declaring his independence from machine politics. Wilson immediately expressed his support.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fielder conducted a vigorous speaking tour throughout the state and resigned from the Senate on October 28 so as to create a vacancy in the governorship and avoid constitutional limits on succeeding himself. On Election Day, he won a secure plurality of 32,850 votes in a three way race against Republican Edward C. Stokes and Progressive Everett Colby.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Term_in_office_(1914–17)"><span id="Term_in_office_.281914.E2.80.9317.29"></span>Term in office (1914–17)</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Fairman_Fielder&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Term in office (1914–17)"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fielder took office for a full term as Governor on January 20, 1914 and served until his term expired on January 15, 1917. </p><p>By the beginning of his term, the Smith–Nugent machine had recovered from its nadir during the Wilson administration, and the Democratic majority Fielder needed to pass progressive legislation had evaporated, with most progressives returning to the Republican ranks. Instead, Fielder formed an alliance with <a href="/wiki/Frank_Hague" title="Frank Hague">Frank Hague</a>, the new boss of the Hudson County political machine.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He secured repeal of the Hillery Maximum Tax law, which protected railroads from equal corporate taxation. Fielder also signed legislation to impose an inheritance tax, reform municipal and county primary elections, strengthen pure food laws, reform the penal system, increase funding for agricultural research, tax bank stocks, and establish a Legislative Reference Bureau.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p> Nevertheless, the first legislative session was disappointing to Fielder, who wrote to <a href="/wiki/Joseph_Patrick_Tumulty" title="Joseph Patrick Tumulty">Joseph P. Tumulty</a>, </p><blockquote><p>"I have been up against some difficult legislative situations ... but this is the worst that I ever encountered. There are several factions of Democrats and at least two of the Republicans with outside influences constantly at work on each and ... the Democratic Assemblymen, for the most part, are the most unreliable lot of men we ever had to deal with. One never knows upon whom he count to assist in legislation."<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p></blockquote><p>In the fall 1914 elections, Republicans won both houses of the legislature, and they increased their majorities in 1915. Fielder signed some progressive legislation in his final two years in office, including a reduction in the number of boards, departments and commissions in state government; the creation of a central purchasing bureau for the state government; a requirement for advance announcement of proposed expenditures to permit public review and comment; protections for factory workers and a ten-hour work day for women.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A coalition of Democrats and Republicans overrode his veto to overturn many of Wilson's reforms to the state corporation laws.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In October 1915, three constitutional amendments were subject to public referendum; Fielder opposed the amendment to grant women suffrage which, along with the amendments to simplify the amendment process and expand municipal authority to condemn land, failed.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By the end of his term, Fielder was largely sidelined by the legislature, whom he denounced and vowed to retire from politics for life.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life">Personal life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Fairman_Fielder&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Personal life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fielder married Mabel Cholwell Miller of Norwalk, Connecticut on June 4, 1895.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Later_life_and_death">Later life and death</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Fairman_Fielder&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Later life and death"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Fielder served as the State Food Administrator to aid the American war effort in 1917.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1919, Fielder was named vice chancellor of the New Jersey Court of Chancery, a post he retained for twenty-nine years.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_2-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fiedler died on December 2, 1954, of a <a href="/wiki/Heart_attack" class="mw-redirect" title="Heart attack">heart attack</a> at <a href="/wiki/Mountainside_Hospital" class="mw-redirect" title="Mountainside Hospital">Mountainside Hospital</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He was buried in the mausoleum in <a href="/wiki/Fairmount_Cemetery,_Newark" class="mw-redirect" title="Fairmount Cemetery, Newark">Fairmount Cemetery, Newark</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=James_Fairman_Fielder&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style 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Fielder Of Jersey Is Dead. Successor to Wilson Served Until 1917. Was Court Vice Chancellor for 40 Years"</a>. <i><a href="/wiki/New_York_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="New York Times">New York Times</a></i>. December 3, 1954<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">March 27,</span> 2010</span>. <q>James Fairman Fielder, Governor of New Jersey, died to-day at the Mountainside Hospital. 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colonial governors of New Jersey">Proprietary Province</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Carteret_(colonial_governor)" title="Philip Carteret (colonial governor)">Carteret</a></li></ul> </div></td><td class="noviewer navbox-image" rowspan="6" style="width:1px;padding:0 0 0 2px"><div><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Seal_of_New_Jersey.svg/75px-Seal_of_New_Jersey.svg.png" decoding="async" width="75" height="75" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Seal_of_New_Jersey.svg/113px-Seal_of_New_Jersey.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8d/Seal_of_New_Jersey.svg/150px-Seal_of_New_Jersey.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="512" data-file-height="513" /></span></span></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_colonial_governors_of_New_Jersey" title="List of colonial governors of New Jersey">East New Jersey</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Philip_Carteret_(colonial_governor)" title="Philip Carteret (colonial governor)">Carteret</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Barclay" title="Robert Barclay">Barclay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Hamilton_(New_Jersey_governor)" title="Andrew Hamilton (New Jersey governor)">Hamilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeremiah_Basse" title="Jeremiah Basse">Basse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Hamilton_(New_Jersey_governor)" title="Andrew Hamilton (New Jersey governor)">Hamilton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_colonial_governors_of_New_Jersey" title="List of colonial governors of New Jersey">West New Jersey</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Byllynge" title="Edward Byllynge">Byllynge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Coxe" title="Daniel Coxe">Coxe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Hamilton_(New_Jersey_governor)" title="Andrew Hamilton (New Jersey governor)">Hamilton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeremiah_Basse" title="Jeremiah Basse">Basse</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Hamilton_(New_Jersey_governor)" title="Andrew Hamilton (New Jersey governor)">Hamilton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Dominion_of_New_England" title="Dominion of New England">Dominion of New England</a> <br /> <span class="nobold">(1688–89)</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Andros" title="Edmund Andros">Andros</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_colonial_governors_of_New_Jersey" title="List of colonial governors of New Jersey">Royal governors</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Hyde,_3rd_Earl_of_Clarendon" title="Edward Hyde, 3rd Earl of Clarendon">Viscount Cornbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Lovelace,_4th_Baron_Lovelace" title="John Lovelace, 4th Baron Lovelace">Baron Lovelace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Ingoldesby" title="Richard Ingoldesby">Ingoldesby</a> (Lt. Gov.)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hunter_(colonial_administrator)" title="Robert Hunter (colonial administrator)">Hunter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Burnet_(colonial_administrator)" title="William Burnet (colonial administrator)">Burnet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Montgomerie" title="John Montgomerie">Montgomerie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_Morris_(governor)" title="Lewis Morris (governor)">Morris</a> (acting)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Cosby" title="William Cosby">Cosby</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Anderson_(New_Jersey_politician)" title="John Anderson (New Jersey politician)">Anderson</a> (acting)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hamilton_(New_Jersey_politician)" title="John Hamilton (New Jersey politician)">Hamilton</a> (acting)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_West,_1st_Earl_De_La_Warr" title="John West, 1st Earl De La Warr">Lord De La Warr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_Morris_(governor)" title="Lewis Morris (governor)">Morris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Hamilton_(New_Jersey_politician)" title="John Hamilton (New Jersey politician)">Hamilton</a> (acting)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Reading_(New_Jersey_governor)" title="John Reading (New Jersey governor)">Reading</a> (acting)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Belcher" title="Jonathan Belcher">Belcher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Reading_(New_Jersey_governor)" title="John Reading (New Jersey governor)">Reading</a> (acting)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Pownall" title="Thomas Pownall">Pownall</a> (Lt. Gov.)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Reading_(New_Jersey_governor)" title="John Reading (New Jersey governor)">Reading</a> (acting)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sir_Francis_Bernard,_1st_Baronet" title="Sir Francis Bernard, 1st Baronet">Bernard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Boone_(governor)" title="Thomas Boone (governor)">Boone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Josiah_Hardy" title="Josiah Hardy">Hardy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Franklin" title="William Franklin">Franklin</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/New_Jersey" title="New Jersey">State</a> <br /> <span class="nobold">(since 1776)</span></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/William_Livingston" title="William Livingston">Livingston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Paterson_(judge)" title="William Paterson (judge)">Paterson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Howell" title="Richard Howell">Howell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Bloomfield" title="Joseph Bloomfield">Bloomfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aaron_Ogden" title="Aaron Ogden">Ogden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Sanford_Pennington" title="William Sanford Pennington">W. 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Stratton">Stratton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Daniel_Haines" title="Daniel Haines">Haines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Franklin_Fort" title="George Franklin Fort">G. F. Fort</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rodman_M._Price" title="Rodman M. Price">Price</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_A._Newell" title="William A. Newell">Newell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Smith_Olden" title="Charles Smith Olden">Olden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joel_Parker_(politician)" title="Joel Parker (politician)">Parker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marcus_Lawrence_Ward" title="Marcus Lawrence Ward">Ward</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theodore_F._Randolph" title="Theodore F. Randolph">Randolph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joel_Parker_(politician)" title="Joel Parker (politician)">Parker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_D._Bedle" title="Joseph D. Bedle">Bedle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_B._McClellan" title="George B. McClellan">McClellan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_C._Ludlow" title="George C. Ludlow">Ludlow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leon_Abbett" title="Leon Abbett">Abbett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Stockton_Green" class="mw-redirect" title="Robert Stockton Green">Green</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leon_Abbett" title="Leon Abbett">Abbett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Theodore_Werts" title="George Theodore Werts">Werts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_W._Griggs" title="John W. Griggs">Griggs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Foster_McGowan_Voorhees" title="Foster McGowan Voorhees">Voorhees</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Franklin_Murphy_(governor)" title="Franklin Murphy (governor)">F. Murphy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_C._Stokes" title="Edward C. Stokes">Stokes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Franklin_Fort" title="John Franklin Fort">J. F. 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