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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyFrederick Theodore FRELINGHUYSEN
(1817-1885)
Senate Years of Service:
1866-1869; 1871-1877Party: Republican;
RepublicanFRELINGHUYSEN, Frederick
Theodore, (nephew and adopted son of Theodore Frelinghuysen,
grandson of Frederick Frelinghuysen, cousin of Joseph Sherman
Frelinhuysen, uncle of Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen,
great-grandfather of Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen, Jr.;
great-great-grandfather of Rodney P. Frelinghuysen), a Senator from
New Jersey; born in Millstone, N.J., August 4, 1817; graduated from
Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J., in 1836; studied law;
admitted to the bar in 1839 and commenced practice in Newark, N.J.;
city attorney of Newark in 1849; member of the city council 1850;
trustee of Rutgers College 1851-1885; member of the peace
convention of 1861 held in Washington, D.C., in an effort to devise
means to prevent the impending war; attorney general of New Jersey
1861-1866; appointed and subsequently elected as a Republican to
the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the death of
William Wright and served from November 12, 1866, to March 3, 1869;
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1868; appointed United
States Minister to England by President Ulysses Grant in July 1870;
confirmed but declined the appointment; again elected to the United
States Senate as a Republican and served from March 4, 1871, to
March 3, 1877; appointed a member of the Electoral Commission in
1877 to decide the contests in various States in the presidential
election of 1876; unsuccessful candidate for reelection; chairman,
Committee on Agriculture (Forty-second through Forty-fourth
Congresses); resumed the practice of law in Newark, N.J.; appointed
Secretary of State by President Chester Arthur 1881-1885; died in
Newark, N.J., May 20, 1885; interment in Mount Pleasant
Cemetery.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Rollins, John William. ”Frederick Theodore
Frelinghuysen, 1817-1885: The Politics and Diplomacy of
Stewardship.” Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wisconsin,
Madison, 1974; Sayles, Stephen. “The Romero-Frelinghuysen
Convention: A Milestone in Border Relations.” New Mexico
Historical Review 51 (October 1976): 295-311.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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