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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—New JerseyFRELINGHUYSEN, Theodore
(1787—1862)
Senate Years of Service:
1829-1835
Party:
Anti-Jacksonian
FRELINGHUYSEN, Theodore, (son of Frederick Frelinghuysen, uncle and adoptive father of Frederick Theodore 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.
”Theodore Frelinghuysen.” The American Review: A Whig Journal of Politics, Literature, Art, and Science
1 (March 1845): 99-103.
Chambers, Talbot Wilson. Memoir of the Life and Character of the Late Hon. Theo. Frelinghuysen, LL.D.
New York: Harper & 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.
Warner, Henry Whiting [Theodore Frelinghuysen, presumed author]. An Inquiry into the Moral and Religious Character of the American Government
. New York: Wiley & Putnam, 1838.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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