Mr. Frelinghuysen represented affluent Morris and Somerset Counties in the House of Representatives from 1953 through 1974. He was a member of a socially prominent family that has provided four United States senators and two House members from New Jersey since the nation’s earliest years.
Most, like him, have been Republicans, including his son Rodney, who, since 1995, has represented the same north-central New Jersey area in the House that his father did.
His entry in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress states after his name: “Cousin of Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen, great-grandson of Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, great-great-nephew of Theodore Frelinghuysen, and great-great-great-grandson of Frederick Frelinghuysen” — the four senators in the family tree.
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen Jr. was born in New York City on Jan. 17, 1916. His father was a banker whose Dutch forebears settled in Somerset County in the 18th century. His mother was the former Adaline Havemeyer.
He and his brother, Henry Osborne Havemeyer Frelinghuysen, attended St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts.
After graduating from Princeton University and, in 1941, from Yale Law School, Mr. Frelinghuysen served in naval intelligence during World War II. He then did postgraduate work in history at Columbia University and was in the investment business in the city before running for Congress in 1952.
He married Beatrice Sterling Procter, a descendant of a founder of Procter & Gamble, in 1940. She died in 1996.
2 comments:
Maybe boring, but he got caught up in a "fairy shakedown" before Stonewall and was one of the first outed men to help the police catch a vicious blackmail ring.
Wouldn’t it be lovely to include his either gay or bi sexual orientation rather than erase it.
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