Joseph S. Frelinghuysen

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Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen (March 12, 1869 – February 8, 1948) represented New Jersey as a Republican in the United States Senate from 1917 to 1923.

Born in Raritan, New Jersey into a historic New Jersey political family, Joseph Frelinghuysen was the nephew of Frederick T. Frelinghuysen and cousin of current congressman Rodney Frelinghuysen. He had a daughter: Victoria Frelinghuysen who married John Grenville Bates, Jr. ^[1]

After fighting in the Spanish-American War and starting an insurance business, Frelinghuysen was elected to the state Senate in 1905 and became president of that body in 1909. He held several state-wide offices before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 1916. He was New Jersey's first directly elected senator following ratification of the 17^th Amendment to the Constitution in 1913.

After a failed reelection bid in 1922, Frelinghuysen returned to the insurance business. He died in 1948 in Tucson, Arizona. He is interred at St. Bernard's Cemetery in Bernardsville, New Jersey.

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In 1921, American president Warren G. Harding, in accordance with a joint congressional act, signed a peace treaty officially ending America's involvement in World War I at the estate of Joseph Frelinghuysen. A memorial plaque was placed on the estate grounds commemorating the event. Today the estate is long gone and suburban sprawl has replaced it with mini-malls. The marker remains in a patch of grass near a Burger King parking lot along Rt 28, just North of the Somerville traffic circle.

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• Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen on the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
• Political Graveyard

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Preceded by James E. Martine

U.S. Senator (Class 1) from New Jersey 1917–1923

Succeeded by Edward I. Edwards

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