Joseph S. Frelinghuysen Papers

FRELINGHUYSEN, Joseph Sherman (nephew of Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen and cousin of Peter Flood Ballantine Frelinghuysen, Jr.), 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; chairman of the Somerset County Republican executive committee 1902- 1905; member of the State senate 1906-1912; president of the senate in 1909 and 1910 and Acting Governor of New Jersey ad interim; member of the Republican State committee 1914- 1916; member of the New York Chamber of Commerce 1912-1926 and of the New Jersey Chamber of Commerce 1914-1925; 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 Republican candidate for re-election to the United States Senate in 1922; trustee of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N. J., 1918-1928; delegate to the Republican National Conventions in 1916, 1920, 1921, 1928, 1936, and 1944; re-engaged in the insurance business until his death in Tucson, Ariz., where he had gone for his health, February 8, 1948; interment in St. Bernard's Cemetery, Bernardsville, N. J. U.S. Congress. Biographical Directory of the American Congress, 1774-1971 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1971), p. 97