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{{Short description|American politician}}
{{about|the U.S. Senator|his son|Joseph S. Frelinghuysen Jr.}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=October 2011}}
{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Joseph S. Frelinghuysen Sr.
| image = Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen Sr.jpg
| image_size =
| caption =
| jr/sr = Junior Senator
| state = [[New Jersey]]
| term_start = March 4, 1917
| term_end = March 3, 1923
| predecessor = [[James E. Martine]]
| successor = [[Edward I. Edwards]]
| office1 = President of the [[New Jersey Senate]]
| term_start1 = 1909
| term_end1 = 1910
| predecessor1 = [[Samuel K. Robbins]]
| successor1 = [[Ernest R. Ackerman]]
| office2 = Member of the [[New Jersey Senate]] from [[Somerset County, New Jersey|Somerset County]]
| term_start2 = 1906
| term_end2 = 1912
| predecessor2 = Samuel S. Childs
| successor2 = William W. Smalley
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1869|3|12}}
| birth_place = [[Raritan, New Jersey]], US
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1948|2|8|1869|3|12}}
| death_place = [[Tucson, Arizona]], US
| death_cause =
| resting_place = Saint Bernards Cemetery
| party = [[Republican Party (United States)|Republican]]
| spouse = Emily Macy Brewster
| children = Victoria F. Bates [[Emily Frelinghuysen McFarland|Emily F. McFarland]] [[Joseph S. Frelinghuysen Jr.]]
| parents = Frederick Frelinghuysen Victoria Sherman
}}
'''Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen Sr.''' (March 12, 1869 – February 8, 1948) represented [[New Jersey]] as a [[U.S. Republican Party|Republican]] in the [[United States Senate]] from 1917 to 1923.

== Early life and family ==
He was born in [[Raritan, New Jersey]], on March 12, 1869, to Frederick Frelinghuysen (1818–1891) and Victoria Bowen (1830–1914). His father was a lawyer who studied under [[Richard Stockton Field]].<ref name="Hess">{{cite book|last1=Hess|first1=Stephen|title=America's Political Dynasties: From Adams to Clinton|date=2016|publisher=[[Brookings Institution Press]]|location=[[Washington, D.C.]]|isbn=9780815727101|pages=800|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fk3DCQAAQBAJ&q=frelinghuysen&pg=PT626|access-date=13 April 2016|language=en}}</ref> He came from a historic New Jersey political family. His paternal grandparents were [[John Frederick Frelinghuysen]] (1776–1833), a lawyer and [[brigadier general]] in the [[War of 1812]], and his second wife, Elizabeth Mercereau Van Vechten. His great-grandparents were [[Frederick Frelinghuysen (general)|Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen]] (1753–1804), lawyer, soldier, and [[United States Senator|Senator]] from [[List of United States Senators from New Jersey|New Jersey]], and his first wife, Gertrude Schenck (1752/53–1794).

==Career==
After fighting in the [[Spanish–American War]] and starting an insurance business, Frelinghuysen was elected to the state [[New Jersey Senate|Senate]] in 1905 and became president of that body in 1909. He held several statewide offices before being elected to the U.S. Senate in 1916. He was New Jersey's first directly elected senator following ratification of the [[Seventeenth Amendment to the United States Constitution|17th Amendment to the Constitution]] in 1913. While in the Senate, he frequented the [[Chevy Chase Club]] and would often golf with his fellow Senators [[Warren G. Harding]], [[Stephen B. Elkins]], and [[Eugene Hale]].<ref name="Hess"/>

In 1921, President [[Warren G. Harding]] signed the [[Knox–Porter Resolution]], officially ending America's involvement in World War I at Frelinghuysen's estate in [[Raritan, New Jersey]].<ref name="Historic Sites">{{cite web|url=http://www.scbp.org/visit/historic.html |title=Historic Sites |publisher=Somerset County Business Partnership |access-date=July 2, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080329001620/http://www.scbp.org/visit/historic.html |archive-date=March 29, 2008 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The President stayed on the estate until at least July 4.<ref>{{cite news |title=Spends Afternoon Reading Newspapers on Senator Frelinghuysen's Front Porch. |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=9A05EED8163EEE3ABC4C53DFB166838A639EDE |quote=President Harding attended church today and with the exception of a short automobile ride with Mrs. Harding through the hills of Somerset County, spent the rest of the day at " The Hill," home of Senator Joseph S. Frelinghuysen. |work=New York Times |date=July 4, 1921 |access-date=July 1, 2008}}</ref> After a failed reelection bid in 1922, Frelinghuysen returned to the insurance business.

In 1938, after considering a run for one of the United States Senate seats in New Jersey,<ref>{{cite news|title=Frelinghuysen Race Hinted|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/06/08/96830414.html?pageNumber=2|access-date=13 April 2016|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=June 8, 1938}}</ref> Frelinghuysen declined to run. Instead, he put his support behind fellow [[U.S. Republican Party|Republican]], former Senator [[W. Warren Barbour]], for the Republican nomination.<ref>{{cite news|title=Frelinghuysen Declines to Run|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1938/06/17/98151481.html?pageNumber=19|access-date=13 April 2016|work=[[The New York Times]]|date=June 17, 1938}}</ref> Barbour eventually won the Senate seat and served until his death in 1943.<ref>Barbour, ''Our Families 1'' p. Barbour-22; excluding statistics re. 1932 election</ref>

==Personal life==
Frelinghuysen married Emily Macy Brewster. Together they had three children:
*Victoria Frelinghuysen (1907–2002), who married John Grenville Bates Jr.<ref>{{cite magazine |quote=Victoria Frelinghuysen, daughter of onetime Senator Joseph S. Frelinghuysen of Manhattan and Far Hills, N. J., whose family included four Senators, whose great-great-grandfather served on Washington's staff and was a member of the Continental Congress; to John Grenville Bates Jr., member New York Stock Exchange; in Bernardsville, N. J. |title=Married |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,927889,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101121024911/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,927889,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 21, 2010 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] |date=September 17, 1928 |access-date=May 14, 2007 }}</ref>
*Emily Frelinghuysen, who married H. Edward Bilkey until his death in 1950 and later married Dr. Ross A. McFarland of the [[Harvard School of Public Health]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Paid Notice: Deaths MCFARLAND, EMILY FRELINGHUYSEN BILKEY|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00E7DD113AF937A25751C1A9609C8B63|access-date=13 April 2016|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 14, 2006}}</ref>
*[[Joseph S. Frelinghuysen Jr.]] (1912–2005), who married Emily Lawrance (1911–2004),<ref>{{cite news|title=Emily Frelinghuysen, 93, resident of Far Hills|url=http://www.newjerseyhills.com/emily-frelinghuysen-resident-of-far-hills/article_f309820f-d5ff-555d-98d6-290234af5c90.html|access-date=13 April 2016|publisher=New Jersey Hills|date=December 29, 2004}}</ref> the daughter of [[Charles Lawrance]] (1882–1950)<ref name="EmilyObitNYT">{{cite news|title=FRELINGHUYSEN, EMILY LAWRANCE|url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9504EEDE1F30F935A15751C1A9629C8B63|access-date=7 April 2016|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=December 26, 2004}}</ref> and Emily Margaret Gordon Dix, and the granddaughter of Rev. [[Morgan Dix]] (1827–1908), the rector of [[Trinity Church (Manhattan)|Trinity Parish]].<ref name="NYTWedding">{{cite news|last1=Staff|title=MISS DIX TO BE A BRIDE. Daughter of Late Rector of Trinity to Wed Charles Lanier Lawrance.|url=http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1910/04/05/104928646.html?pageNumber=11|access-date=7 April 2016|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=April 5, 1910}}</ref>
His wife's portrait and that of Joseph Jr, were painted in 1916 by the Swiss-born American artist [[Adolfo Müller-Ury]]; it is today in the Newark Museum, New Jersey. Frelinghuysen owned an 88-foot houseboat called ''Victoria'' that Harding used for 12 days after he won the [[1920 United States presidential election|1920 election for President]], but before he was [[Inauguration of Warren G. Harding|inaugurated]] in March 1921.<ref name="Hess"/>

He died on February 8, 1948, in [[Tucson, Arizona]], and was interred at St. Bernard's Cemetery in [[Bernardsville, New Jersey]].

=== Legacy ===
[[File:Frelinghuysen Estate marker, area view.jpg|thumb|upright=1.3|right|Memorial plaque marking Frelinghuysen estate site and signing of the Knox–Porter resolution on July 2, 1921.]]
A memorial plaque was placed on the estate grounds commemorating the [[Knox–Porter Resolution]] officially ending America's involvement in World War I. 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 [[New Jersey Route 28|Route 28]], just north of the [[Somerville Circle|Somerville traffic circle]].<ref name="Historic Sites" />

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== References ==
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== External links ==
{{Commons category|Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen, Sr.}}
{{CongBio|F000370}}
* Barbour, Thomas (nephew of William Warren Barbour). ''Our Families (Volumes 1 & 2)''. Self-printed. 1983
* [[Stephen H. Hess|Hess, Stephen]]. ''America's Political Dynasties: From Adams to Clinton''. [[Brookings Institution Press]], Nov 24, 2015
*[https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/19087 Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen Sr.] at [[Findagrave]]

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