David Ogden Watkins

For other people named David Watkins, see David Watkins (disambiguation).

David O. Watkins

David Ogden Watkins (June 8, 1862 – June 20, 1938) was the acting Governor of New Jersey from 1898 to 1899.

Biography

Watkins was born in Woodbury, New Jersey. He studied law and was admitted to practice in New Jersey in 1893. Watkins' first political foray was as Mayor of Woodbury, from 1886 to 1890, later serving on the Woodbury City Council from 1892 to 1898, and as president of the council from 1895 to 1897. He served in the New Jersey General Assembly from 1887 to 1899 as a Republican. On October 18, 1898, Governor Foster MacGowan Voorhees resigned from office, and Watkins become Acting Governor in his capacity as Speaker of the New Jersey State Assembly, Serving until January 16, 1899, when Voorhees returned as Governor. From 1900 to 1903 he served as the U.S. Attorney for the District of New Jersey and from 1903 to 1909 he was the state's Commissioner of Banking and Insurance.

He died on June 20, 1938, and was buried in Green Cemetery in Woodbury.

See also

• David Ogden Watkins entry at The Political Graveyard

Political offices
Preceded by George W. MacPherson	Speaker of the New Jersey General Assembly 1898-1899	Succeeded by Benjamin Franklin Jones
Preceded by Foster MacGowan Voorhees Acting Governor	Acting Governor of New Jersey October 18, 1898 – January 16, 1899	Succeeded by Foster MacGowan Voorhees Governor