
Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen (4 August 1817 – 20 May 1885) was a Democratic US Senator from New Jersey from 12 November 1866 to 3 March 1869 (succeeding William Wright and preceding John P. Stockton) and from 4 March 1871 to 3 March 1877 (succeeding Alexander G. Cattell and preceding John R. McPherson) and United States Secretary of State from 19 December 1881 to 6 March 1885 (succeeding James G. Blaine and preceding Thomas F. Bayard).
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Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen was born in Millstone, Somerset County, New Jersey in 1817, the nephew and adoptive son of Theodore Frelinghuysen. He worked as a railroad attorney before serving as a delegate to the 1860 Republican National Convention, as Attorney General of New Jersey from 1861 to 1867, in the US Senate from 1866 to 1869 and from 1871 to 1877, and as United States Secretary of State from 1881 to 1885. He died at his home in Newark less than three months after leaving office.