Years of Service: 1866-1869; 1871-1877 Party: Republican; Republican
FRELINGHUYSEN, Frederick Theodore, (nephew
and adopted son of Theodore Frelinghuysen, great-nephew of Frederick
Frelinghuysen, uncle of Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen, and great-grandfather of
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen, Jr.), 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; was 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. - Biographical
Data courtesy of the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress.
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US China Trade 1784-2009
The United Colonies 1st
government began in a Philadelphia Tavern
and the United States 1st federal government ended in a
NYC Tavern!
The Founders convened the government in 11 different capitol buildings and
experienced 15 years of challenges that
included war,
hyper-inflation, a failed
constitution, judicial corruption, armed citizen and U.S. Army rebellions.
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