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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyJoseph Sherman FRELINGHUYSEN
(1869-1948)
Senate Years of Service:
1917-1923Party: RepublicanFRELINGHUYSEN, Joseph
Sherman, (cousin of Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, Peter
Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen, Jr., and Rodney P. Frelinghuysen,
great grandson of Frederick Frelinghuysen [1753-1804], great-nephew
of Theodore Frelinghuysen), a Senator from New Jersey; born in
Raritan, Somerset County, N.J., March 12, 1869; attended the public
schools; interested in insurance companies; served in the Spanish
American War in 1898 as second lieutenant, first lieutenant, and
ordnance officer; member, State senate 1906-1912, serving as
president 1909-1910; Acting Governor of New Jersey ad interim;
president of the State board of agriculture 1912-1925; president of
the State board of education 1915-1919; elected as a Republican to
the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1917, to March 3,
1923; unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1922; chairman,
Committee on Coast Defenses (Sixty-sixth Congress); resumed his
insurance business until his death in Tucson, Ariz., February 8,
1948; interment in St. Bernard’s Cemetery, Bernardsville,
N.J.
Bibliography
Levering, Ralph B. “Partisanship, Ideology, and Attitudes
toward Woodrow Wilson: New Jersey’s Republican Senators and
the League of Nations Controversy, 1918-1920.” New Jersey
History 109 (Fall/Winter 1991): 1-13.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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