State

New Jersey

state of the United States of America

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1776–1945
Founded
1776
Capital
Trenton
Languages
English
Preceded by
Province of New Jersey

Overview

New Jersey is a state located in both the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States. Located at the geographic hub of the heavily urbanized Northeast megalopolis, it is bordered to the northwest, north, and northeast by New York State; on its east, southeast, and south by the Atlantic Ocean; on its west by the Delaware River and Pennsylvania; and on its southwest by Delaware Bay and Delaware. At 7,354 square miles (19,050 km2), New Jersey is the fifth-smallest U.S. state by land area. According to a 2025 U.S. Census Bureau estimate, it is the 11th-most populous state, with over 9.5 million residents, its highest estimated count ever. The state capital is Trenton, and the state's most populous city is Newark. New Jersey is the most densely populated U.S. state, and is the only U.S. state in which every county is deemed urban by the U.S. Census Bureau.

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All rulers (61)

  1. William Livingston1776–1790
  2. William Paterson1790–1793
  3. Elisha Lawrence1790
  4. Richard Howell1793–1801
  5. Thomas Henderson1793
  6. Joseph Bloomfield1801–1802
  7. John Lambert1802–1803
  8. Joseph Bloomfield1803–1812
  9. Aaron Ogden1812–1813
  10. William Sanford Pennington1813–1815
  11. Mahlon Dickerson1815–1817
  12. William Kennedy1815
  13. Isaac Halstead Williamson1817–1829
  14. Peter Dumont Vroom1829–1832
  15. Samuel Lewis Southard1832–1833
  16. Peter Dumont Vroom1833–1836
  17. Elias Petty Seeley1833
  18. Philemon Dickerson1836–1837
  19. William Pennington1837–1843
  20. Daniel Haines1843–1845
  21. Charles Creighton Stratton1845–1848
  22. Daniel Haines1848–1851
  23. George Franklin Fort1851–1854
  24. Rodman McCamley Price1854–1857
  25. William Augustus Newell1857–1860
  26. Charles Smith Olden1860–1863
  27. Joel Parker1863–1866
  28. Marcus Lawrence Ward Sr.1866–1869
  29. Theodore Fitz Randolph1869–1872
  30. Joel Parker1872–1875
  31. Joseph D. Bedle1875–1878
  32. George Brinton McClellan1878–1881
  33. George C. Ludlow1881–1884
  34. Leon Abbett1884–1887
  35. Robert Stockton Green1887–1890
  36. Leon Abbett1890–1893
  37. George Theodore Werts1893–1896
  38. John W. Griggs1896–1898
  39. David Ogden Watkins1898–1899
  40. Foster McGowan Voorhees1898
  41. Foster McGowan Voorhees1899–1902
  42. Franklin Murphy1902–1905
  43. Edward C. Stokes1905–1908
  44. John Franklin Fort1908–1911
  45. Leon Rutherford Taylor1913–1914
  46. James Fairman Fielder1913
  47. James Fairman Fielder1914–1917
  48. Walter Evans Edge1917–1919
  49. William Nelson Runyon1919–1920
  50. Edward Irving Edwards1920–1923
  51. Clarence Edwards Case1920
  52. George Sebastian Silzer1923–1926
  53. A. Harry Moore1926–1929
  54. Morgan Foster Larson1929–1932
  55. A. Harry Moore1932–1935
  56. Harold Giles Hoffman1935–1938
  57. Horace Griggs Prall1935
  58. Clifford Ross Powell1935
  59. A. Harry Moore1938–1941
  60. Charles Edison1941–1944
  61. Walter Evans Edge1944–1947

Records (8)

  1. 1776 — Battle of Fort LeeBattle · United Kingdom ▸ United States
  2. 1776 — Battle of TrentonBattle · United States ▸ United Kingdom, Hesse
  3. 1777 — Battle of Somerset Court HouseBattle · United States ▸ United Kingdom
  4. 1777 — Battle of Staten IslandBattle · United Kingdom ▸ United States
  5. 1778 — Battle of Little Egg HarborBattle · United Kingdom ▸ United States
  6. 1778 — Battle of MonmouthBattle · United Kingdom ▸ United States
  7. 1779 — Battle of Paulus HookBattle · United States ▸ United Kingdom
  8. 1780 — Battle of Springfield, New JerseyBattle · United States ▸ United Kingdom

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