1907 NJ Governor John Franklin Fort Campaign Button Political

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1907 NJ Governor John Franklin Fort Campaign button Political. Condition is "Used". size of a dime as shown
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.
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. Shipped with USPS First Class.