He was the superintendent of Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital.
[1] He was born on August 15, 1852, in Somerville, New Jersey, to Daniel Spader Voorhees, Sr. and Mary Louise Compton Doty.
She was the daughter of Margaret and William W. White of New Brunswick, New Jersey.
The New Jersey Senate convened on February 14, 1907, and appointed him as the New Jersey State Treasurer for a term of three years, to succeed Frank Obadiah Briggs.
He started his term on March 1, 1907, and in 1910 was re-elected and served until 1913.