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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyTheodore FRELINGHUYSEN
(1787-1862)
Senate Years of Service:
1829-1835Party: Anti-JacksonianFRELINGHUYSEN, Theodore,
(son of Frederick Frelinghuysen, uncle and adoptive father of
Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, great-uncle of Joseph Sherman
Frelinghuysen, great-great-uncle of Peter Hood Ballantine
Frelinghuysen, Jr., and great-great-great-uncle of Rodney P.
Frelyinghuysen), a Senator from New Jersey; born in Millstone,
N.J., March 28, 1787; pursued classical studies and graduated from
the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1804;
studied law; admitted to the bar in 1808 and commenced practice in
Newark, N.J.; served as captain of Volunteer Militia in the War of
1812; attorney general of New Jersey 1817-1829, when he resigned;
declined the office of justice of the State supreme court in 1826;
unsuccessful candidate for election to the United States Senate in
1826; elected as an Anti-Jacksonian to the United States Senate in
1828 and served from March 4, 1829, to March 3, 1835; chairman,
Committee on Manufactures (Twenty-eighth Congress); resumed the
practice of law in Newark, N.J.; mayor of Newark 1837-1838;
chancellor of New York University 1839-1850; very active in
religious organizations throughout his life; vice president of the
American Colonization Society; unsuccessful Whig candidate for vice
president on the ticket with Henry Clay in 1844; president of
Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J., from 1850 until his death in
New Brunswick, N.J., April 12, 1862; interment in First Reformed
Church Cemetery.
Bibliography
Dictionary of American Biography; Chambers, T.W. Memoir
of the Life and Character of Honorable Theodore Frelinghuysen.
New York: Harper and Brothers, 1863; Eells, Robert J. Forgotten
Saint: The Life of Theodore Frelinghuysen: A Case Study of
Christian Leadership. Lanham, Md.: University Press of America,
1987.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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