Question: How long did Andrew Belcher's father serve as governor of New Jersey?

Context articles: Reinhardt V. Metzger
New Jersey Medical School
Steven P. Perskie
Andrew Belcher
Poet Laureate of New Jersey
Elections in New Jersey
New Jersey Farm Winery Act
A. Harry Moore
Governor of New Jersey
Jonathan Belcher

Reinhardt Voorhees Metzger (April 12, 1898- 1975) was an American Republican Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly and an Independent candidate for Governor of New Jersey in 1961.
 He won a Special Election for the New Jersey General Assembly in 1953 to replace William F. Tompkins, who had resigned to become U.S. Attorney for New Jersey.
 He was elected to a full term in 1953 representing Essex County, but was not a candidate for re-election in 1955.
 He left the Republican Party in 1961 to run as a Conservative candidate for Governor.
 He received 5,820 votes (0.27%) of the vote.
 He later served as President of the New Jersey Conservative Club.
 In a speech to the Central New Jersey Conference of Conservatives in 1962, Metzger said: "You will have to decide which is more important, your party tag or your principles -- your party label or your freedom and principles of life and government."
 Metzger urged conservatives not to vote for Republican candidates that failed to adhere to conservative principles, but instead write in the names of a better candidate.
 Metzger was born in Philadelphia.
 He was married to Agnes Kearney Lake (1907-1960) from 1933 until her death in 1960.
New Jersey Medical School (NJMS)—also known as Rutgers New Jersey Medical School—is a graduate medical school of Rutgers University that is part of the division of Biomedical and Health Sciences.
 NJMS is the oldest school of medicine in New Jersey.
 The school of medicine was founded in 1954 as the Seton Hall College of Medicine and Dentistry, established under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Newark, in Jersey City, New Jersey.
 On August 6, 1954, the College was incorporated as a legal entity separate from Seton Hall University, but with an interlocking Board of Trustees.
 The first class of 80 students was admitted to the four-year MD program in September 1956, becoming only the sixth medical school in the New York City metropolitan area.
 In 1965, the institution was acquired by the State of New Jersey, renamed the New Jersey College of Medicine and Dentistry (NJCMD), and relocated to Newark, New Jersey.
 With the passing of the Medical and Dental Education Act of 1970, signed into law by Governor William T. Cahill on June 16, the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (CMDNJ) was created, merging NJCMD with the two-year medical school established at Rutgers University in 1961, under a single board of trustees.
Steven P. Perskie (born January 10, 1945 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) is a former New Jersey Superior Court judge in Atlantic City, New Jersey and a former Democratic Party politician from Margate City, New Jersey.
 Perskie served as a member of the New Jersey General Assembly, where he represented the 2nd Legislative District from 1971 to 1977.
 He was elected to the New Jersey Senate in 1977.
 Perskie served as Chief of Staff to New Jersey Governor James Florio from 1989 - 1990 and as the third chairman of the New Jersey Casino Control Commission from 1990 to 1994.
 Outside politics Perskie worked as both a corporate and private practice attorney.
Andrew Belcher (1706–1771) was an early colonial Bostonian who served on the Governor's Council of the Province of Massachusetts Bay from 1765 to 1767.
 Andrew married Elizabeth Teale and lived in Milton, Massachusetts.
 His father, Jonathan Belcher was a colonial governor of Massachusetts, New Hampshire and New Jersey.
The Poet Laureate of New Jersey (statutorily known as New Jersey William Carlos Williams Citation of Merit) was an honor presented biennially by the Governor of New Jersey to a distinguished New Jersey poet.
 Created in 1999, this position existed for less than four years and was abolished by the legislature effective July 2, 2003.
 When the New Jersey State Legislature created the laureate position, the bill provided specifically for the creation of an award named in honor of twentieth-century poet and physician William Carlos Williams (1883–1963) who resided in Rutherford, New Jersey.
 However, the legislature recognized that the award's recipient would "be considered the poet laureate of the State of New Jersey for a period of two years.
 Before the position was abolished, only two poets, Gerald Stern and Amiri Baraka, had been appointed as the state's poet laureate.
Elections in New Jersey are authorized under Article II of the New Jersey State Constitution, which establishes elections for the governor, the lieutenant governor, and members of the New Jersey Legislature.
 Elections are regulated under state law, Title 19.
 The office of the New Jersey Secretary of State has a Division of Elections that oversees the execution of elections under state law (This used to be the New Jersey Attorney General).
 In addition, the New Jersey Election Law Enforcement Commission (ELEC) is responsible for administering campaign financing and lobbying disclosure.
The New Jersey Farm Winery Act was legislation passed by the New Jersey state legislature and signed by Governor Brendan Byrne in 1981.
 The Farm Winery Act was the first of several efforts by the New Jersey state legislature to relax Prohibition-era restrictions and craft new laws to facilitate the growth of the alcoholic beverage industry and provide new opportunities for winery licenses.
 Before it was enacted, New Jersey provided only one winery license for each million residents and licenses were practically impossible to obtain.
 By 1981, New Jersey boasted only seven wineries.
 By 1988, that number had doubled to 15.
 s of 2014 , New Jersey currently has 48 licensed and operating wineries with several more prospective wineries in various stages of development.
 New Jersey wineries produce wine from more than 90 varieties of grapes, and from over 25 other fruits.
Arthur Harry Moore (July 3, 1877 – November 18, 1952) was a Democrat who was the 39th Governor of New Jersey, serving three terms between 1926 and 1941.
 He was the longest-serving New Jersey Governor in the 20th century and the only New Jersey Governor elected to serve three separate non-consecutive terms.
 Moore represented New Jersey in the United States Senate from January 3, 1935, to January 17, 1938, when he stepped down to begin his third term as Governor of New Jersey.
The Governor of the State of New Jersey is head of the executive branch of New Jersey's state government.
 The office of governor is an elected position, for which elected officials serve four-year terms.
 Governors cannot be elected to more than two "consecutive" terms, but there is no limit on the total number of terms they may serve.
 The official residence for the governor is Drumthwacket, a mansion located in Princeton, New Jersey; the office of the governor is at the New Jersey State House in Trenton.
Jonathan Belcher (8 January 1681/231 August 1757) was a merchant, businessman, and politician from the Province of Massachusetts Bay during the American colonial period.
 Belcher served simultaneously for over a decade as colonial governor of the British colonies of New Hampshire (1729–1741) and Massachusetts (1730–1741) and later for ten years as governor of New Jersey (1747–1757).