John Wesley Wescott

John Wesley Wescott (February 20, 1849 – June 11, 1927) was an American lawyer and jurist who served as Attorney General of New Jersey from 1914 to 1919.

At Yale, he was active in football, rowing, baseball, wrestling, and boxing, and also won high honours for oratory and English composition.

In the race for the Democratic nomination for Governor of New Jersey in 1910, Wescott supported the candidacy of Frank S. Katzenbach, who had narrowly lost to John Franklin Fort in the previous election.

[1] After World War I, Wescott was a strong advocate of President Wilson's attempts to have the United States enter the League of Nations.

He was the head of the group Woodrow Wilson Democracy and promoted a pro-League of Nations plank in the Democratic Party platform at the 1924 Convention.