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See also:FREDERICK See also:THEODORE See also:FRELINGHUYSEN (1817-1885)
, See also:American lawyer and statesman, of Dutch descent, was See also:born at Millstone, New See also:Jersey, on the 4th of See also:August 1817
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His See also:grand-See also:father, See also:Frederick See also:Frelinghuysen (1753-1804), was an eminent lawyer, one of the framers of the first New Jersey constitution, a soldier in the See also:War of See also:Independence, and a member (1778-1779 and 1782-1783) of the See also:Continental See also:Congress from New Jersey, and in 1793-1796 of the See also:United States See also:senate; and his See also:uncle, See also:Theodore (1787-1862), was See also:attorney-See also:general of New Jersey from 1817 to 1829, was a United States senator from New Jersey in 1829-1835, was the Whig See also:candidate for See also:vice-See also:president on the See also:Clay See also:ticket in 1844, and was See also:chancellor of the university of New See also:York in 1839-1850 and president of Rutgers See also:College in 1850-1862
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Frederick Theodore, See also:left an See also:orphan at the See also:age of three, was adopted by his uncle, graduated at Rutgers in 1836, and studied See also:law in See also:Newark with his uncle, to whose practice he succeeded in 1839, soon after his See also:admission to the See also:bar
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He became attorney for the Central Railroad of New Jersey, the See also:Morris See also:Canal and Banking See also:Company, and other corporations, and from 1861 to 1867 was attorney-general of New Jersey
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In 1861 he was a delegate to the See also:peace congress at See also:Washington, and in 1866 was appointed by the See also:governor of New Jersey, as a Republican, to fill a vacancy in the United States senate
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In the See also:winter of 1867 he was elected to fill the unexpired See also:term, but a Democratic See also:majority in the legislature prevented his re-See also:election in 1869
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In 1870 he was nominated by President See also: Retiring, with his See also:health impaired by overwork, to his See also:home in Newark, he died there on the 20th of May, less than three months after relinquishing the cares of See also:office . |
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