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Senate Years of Service: 1917-1923 Party: Republican
FRELINGHUYSEN, Joseph Sherman, (nephew of Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, cousin of Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen, Jr. and Rodney P. 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. Bernards Cemetery, Bernardsville, N.J.
BibliographyLevering, Ralph B. Partisanship, Ideology, and Attitudes
toward Woodrow Wilson: New Jerseys Republican Senators and the League of Nations Controversy,
1918-1920. New Jersey History 109 (Fall/Winter 1991): 1-13.
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