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Senate Years of Service: 1917-1923 Party: Republican
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FRELINGHUYSEN, 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. 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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