John Franklin Fort (March 20, 1852 – November 17, 1920) was an American Republican Party politician, who served as the 33rd governor of New Jersey, from 1908 to 1911.

His uncle, George Franklin Fort, was a Democratic governor of New Jersey from 1851 to 1854.

In 1900, Governor Foster M. Voorhees appointed him to the New Jersey Supreme Court, where he remained until 1907.

In 1909 Fort was elected an honorary member of the New Jersey Society of the Cincinnati.

[2] 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.