Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen

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Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen

Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen (born January 17, 1916 in New York City , †  May 23, 2011 in Harding , New Jersey ) was an American politician . Between 1953 and 1975 he represented the state of New Jersey in the US House of Representatives .

Career

Peter Frelinghuysen was a member of a well-known family of politicians . Their political tradition goes back to the early days of the United States. His relatives included four U.S. senators and two congressmen. For example, he was the great-grandson of US Senator Frederick T. Frelinghuysen (1817-1885) and great-great-nephew of Senator Theodore Frelinghuysen (1787-1862). His son Rodney , born in 1946, has been a member of Congress since 1995.

Frelinghuysen attended St. Mark's School in Southboro ( Massachusetts ). He then studied at Princeton University until 1938 . After a subsequent law degree at Yale University and his admission to the bar in 1941, he began to work in this profession in New York. During the Second World War he worked for the ONI naval intelligence service between 1942 and 1945 . In 1946 and 1947, Frelinghuysen studied history at Columbia University . Between May and October 1948 he was on the staff of the Hoover Commission on Foreign Affairs. He then worked in the investment industry in New York. He also worked in the banking industry. He became a director at Howard Savings Bank in Livingston .

Politically, Frelinghuysen was a member of the Republican Party . In the congressional elections of 1952 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the fifth constituency of New Jersey , where he succeeded Charles Aubrey Eaton on January 3, 1953 . After ten re-elections, he was able to complete eleven legislative terms in Congress by January 3, 1975 . His time in Congress included the Cold War , the Korean War , the Vietnam War, and domestically the civil rights movement and the Watergate affair . During this time the 23rd , 24th , 25th and 26th amendments to the Constitution were ratified.

In 1974 Peter Frelinghuysen renounced another candidacy. After the end of his time in the US House of Representatives, he withdrew into retirement. He died in Harding on May 23, 2011.

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SURNAME Frelinghuysen, Peter Hood Ballantine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH January 17, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH New York City
DATE OF DEATH May 23, 2011
Place of death Harding , New Jersey