Frelinghuysen, Frederick, 1753-1804

<ul><b>RACES</b>
<li>12/14/1803 NJ At-Large Lost 0.42% (-16.03%)</li>
<li>01/02/1793 NJ US Senate Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>10/09/1792 NJ At-Large Lost 0.02% (-16.28%)</li>
<li>02/11/1789 NJ At-Large Lost 0.01% (-19.92%)</li>
<li>12/31/1782 NJ Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
<li>12/31/1778 NJ Continental Congress Won 100.00% (+100.00%)</li>
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<p>Frederick Frelinghuysen (April 13, 1753 – April 13, 1804) was an American lawyer, soldier, and senator from New Jersey. A graduate of the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University), Frederick went on to become an officer during the American Revolutionary War. In addition, he served as a delegate to the Continental Congress. He was a United States Senator from New Jersey from 1793 until 1796, and served as the United States Attorney for the District of New Jersey in 1801.</p>

<p>He was born near Somerville in the Province of New Jersey to John Frelinghuysen (1727–1754) of Flatbush, Brooklyn and Dinah Van Berg (1725–1807) of Amsterdam. His father, John, was the son of the immigrant minister Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, the progenitor of the Frelinghuysen family in New Jersey.</p>

<p>He graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1770, and was the sole instructor at Queen's College, New Brunswick (now Rutgers University) from 1771 to 1774. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1774, practicing law in Somerset County, New Jersey.</p>

FRELINGHUYSEN, Frederick, (Father of Theodore Frelinghuysen, grandfather of Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen, great-grandfather of Joseph Sherman Felinghuysen, great-great-great-grandfather of Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen, Jr.; great-great-great-great-grandfather of Rodney P. Frelinghuysen), a Delegate and a Senator from New Jersey; born near Somerville, Somerset County, N.J., April 13, 1753; graduated from the College of New Jersey (now Princeton University) in 1770; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1774 and commenced practice in Somerset County, N.J.; member, provincial congress of New Jersey 1775-1776; served in the Revolutionary War, attaining the rank of colonel; Member of the Continental Congress 1779; clerk of the common pleas court, Somerset County 1781-1789, when he resigned; member, State general assembly 1784, 1800-1804; member of the New Jersey convention that ratified the Federal Constitution in 1787; member, State council 1790-1792; appointed by President George Washington brigadier general in 1790 in the campaign against the western Indians; elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1793, to November 12, 1796, when he resigned; commissioned major general in 1794 during the Whiskey Rebellion; died in Millstone, N.J., April 13, 1804; interment in the Old Cemetery, Weston, N.J.