Frederick Frelinghuysen

Frederick Frelinghuysen

Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (born April 13, 1753 in Somerville , Province of New Jersey , † April 13, 1804 in Millstone , New Jersey ) was an American general and politician ( Federalist Party ).

Life

Frederick Frelinghuysen graduated from the College of New Jersey , now Princeton University , in 1770 . He then studied law , was inducted into the Bar in 1774 and began practicing law in Somerset County . In the course of the revolution he became politically active and sat from 1775 to 1776 in the Provincial Congress of New Jersey. In the War of Independence , he joined the Continental Army , in which he rose to colonel . In 1779 he took part as a delegate to the sessions of the Continental Congress in Philadelphia . He became a clerk at the Court of Common Pleas in Somerset County in 1781 , which he remained until 1789. During this time he sat in 1784 for the first time as a member of the New Jersey General Assembly . He later belonged to the state parliament again from 1800 to 1804. He also participated in the State Convention of New Jersey, which ratified the United States Constitution in 1787 .

Between 1790 and 1792 Frelinghuysen was a member of the State Council of New Jersey. In addition, President George Washington made him brigadier general in 1790 to fight Indians in the western United States . On March 4, 1793, Frelinghuysen was elected to the United States Senate , where he remained until his resignation on November 12, 1796. He had since returned to the military with the rank of major general in 1794 during the Whiskey Rebellion . In 1801 he briefly held the post of federal prosecutor for the district of New Jersey as the successor to Lucius Horatio Stockton . He died in Millstone on his 51st birthday and was buried in the Old Cemetery in Weston .

family

Several descendants of Frederick Frelinghuysen held high political offices. His son Theodore (1787–1862) became a US Senator, as did his grandson Frederick (1817–1885), who also served as Secretary of State of the United States under President Chester A. Arthur . His great-grandson Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen (1869–1948) was also a member of the US Senate. His great-great-great-grandson Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen (1916-2001) was a member of the United States House of Representatives , in which his son Rodney , born in 1946 , Frederick Frelinghuysen's great, great-great-grandson, has been in office since 1995.

Web links

• Frederick Frelinghuysen in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Frederick Frelinghuysen in the database of Find a Grave (English)
• Frederick Frelinghuysen at The Political Graveyard