"Chester Arthur Sec of State" Frederick Frelinghuysen Cut signature Mounted COA

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"Chester A Arthur's Secretary of State" Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen Cut signature Mounted.
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Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen
(August 4, 1817 – May 20, 1885) was an American lawyer and politician from New Jersey who served as a U.S. Senator and later as
United States Secretary of State
under President
Chester A. Arthur
. Frelinghuysen was born in
Millstone, New Jersey
, to Frederick Frelinghuysen (1788–1820) and Mary Dumont. His father died when he was just three years old, and he was adopted by his uncle,
Theodore Frelinghuysen
(1787–1862). His grandfather,
Frederick Frelinghuysen
(1753–1804), was an eminent lawyer, one of the framers of the first
New Jersey Constitution
, a soldier in the
American Revolutionary War
, a member (1778–1779 and 1782–1783) of the
Continental Congress
from New Jersey, and from 1793 to 1796 a member of the
United States Senate
.
His uncle, Theodore Frelinghuysen, was
Attorney General of New Jersey
from 1817 to 1829, was a U.S. Senator from New Jersey from 1829 to 1835, was the
Whig
candidate for
Vice President of the United States
on the
Henry Clay
ticket in the
1844 Presidential election
, and was
Chancellor
of
New York University
from 1839 until 1850 and president of
Rutgers College
from 1850 to 1862. Frelinghuysen graduated from
Rutgers College
in 1836, and studied law in Newark with his uncle, to whose practice he succeeded in 1839, after he was admitted to the bar. Following his admission to the bar, he became attorney for the
Central Railroad of New Jersey
, the
Morris Canal and Banking Company
and other corporations. Frelinghuysen was a delegate to the
1860 Republican National Convention
from New Jersey and from 1861 to 1867 was
Attorney General of New Jersey
. He was a delegate to the
Peace conference of 1861
in Washington, and in 1866 was appointed by the
Governor of New Jersey
, as a
Republican
, to fill a vacancy in the United States Senate. In the winter of 1867, he was elected to fill the unexpired term, but a Democratic majority in the
New Jersey Legislature
prevented his re-election in 1869.
In 1870, he was nominated by
President
Ulysses S. Grant
, and confirmed by the Senate, as
United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom
to succeed
John Lothrop Motley
, but declined the mission. From 1871 to 1877 he was again a member of the United States Senate, in which he was prominent in debate and in committee work, and was chairman of the
U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs
during the
Alabama Claims
negotiations.
He was a strong opponent of the
Reconstruction
measures of President
Andrew Johnson
, for whose conviction he voted (on most of the specific charges) in the
impeachment
trial.
He was a member of the joint committee which drew up and reported (1877) the Electoral Commission Bill, and subsequently served as a member of the
Electoral Commission
that decided the
1876 Presidential election
. As a
Republican
, he voted with the eight-member majority on all counts. On December 12, 1881, he was appointed
United States Secretary of State
by President
Chester A. Arthur
to succeed
James G. Blaine
, and served until the inauguration of President
Grover Cleveland
in 1885.
After his term as Secretary of State Frelinghuysen returned to his home in
Newark
where he died less than three months after retiring.