Peter Frelinghuysen, Jr.
| Peter H. B. Frelinghuysen, Jr. | |||
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| Former U.S. Representative from New Jersey's 5th Congressional District From: January 3, 1953 – January 3, 1975 | |||
| Predecessor | Charles A. Eaton | ||
| Successor | Millicent Fenwick | ||
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| Party | Republican | ||
| Spouse(s) | Beatrice Sterling Procter | ||
Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen, Jr. (January 17, 1916 – May 23, 2011) was an attorney and Moderate Republican[1][2] from New Jersey who represented the state's fifth congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1953 to 1975. He was the father of Rodney Frelinghuysen, who represented the 11th district in the House from 1995 until his defeat in the 2018 Midterms.
Following his 2011 death at the age of ninety-five, an obituary described him as:[3]
| “ | ...a blue-blooded lion of New Jersey's moderate Republican tradition... | ” |
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U.S. House of Representatives
In 1953, Frelinghuysen was among forty-nine House Republicans who voted against re-enacting the Select Committee to Investigate Tax-Exempt Foundations and Comparable Organizations.[4] The select committee was re-established at the request of Tennessee conservative congressman B. Carroll Reece, who was dissatisfied with the committee's ineptitude on properly investigating subversion among tax-exempt foundations in the previous House session. During the 83rd Congress when chaired by the Eastern Tennessee representative, it became known as the Reece Committee.
1964-65 GOP establishment revolt
Following the 1964 elections where the landslide defeat of Barry Goldwater in the presidential race dragged many Republicans in congressional races to substantial losses, then-congressman Gerald Ford, a Moderate Republican, successfully ousted the more conservative Charles A. Halleck for House Minority Leader and supported Frelinghuysen for Whip.[1] The latter thus challenged the incumbent Republican Whip Leslie Arends though failed to succeed due to Arends' well-established connections with enough GOP colleagues.[5] The New Jersey politician commented afterwards:[1]
| “ | It was a well‐worth try, but I never dreamt I would be successful. It was a gesture, really. | ” |
Interestingly enough, then-Illinois representative and future Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who spearheaded Ford's ousting of Halleck,[6][7] supported Arends' turning back of Frelinghuysen's bid for Whip.[8]
Frelinghuysen remarked on the resignation of Richard Nixon following Watergate:[9]
| “ | By resigning his office, President Nixon has performed a great service to his country. To allow the constitutional process of impeachment to grind on for months, with an unfavorable outcome uncertain, would only have deepened the Watergate paralysis of our government and the personal anguish of the First Family and their friends. | ” |
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Berliner, David C. (June 3, 1973). Frelinghuysen: Moderate Republican. The New York Times. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
- ↑ Peter Frelinghuysen Jr.. GovTrack.us. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
- ↑ May 24, 2011. Peter H.B. Frelinghuysen, longtime public servant, dead at 95. NJ.com. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
- ↑ H RES 217. RESOLUTION CREATING A SPECIAL COMMITTEE TO CON- DUCT A FULL AND COMPLETE INVESTIGATION AND STUDY OF EDUCA- TIONAL AND PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS AND OTHER COMPARABLE ORGANIZATIONS WHICH ARE EXEMPT FROM FED. INCOME TAXATION.. GovTrack.us. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
- ↑ Pearson, Richard (July 17, 1985). Leslie C. Arends, 89, Dies. The Washington Post. Article may require subscription; archived version available here. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
- ↑ March 31, 2009. Gerald R. Ford Oral History Project. Gerald Ford Foundation. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
- ↑ Greenwood, Max; Biette-Timmons, Nora (June 30, 2021). Former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld Dies. Huffington Post. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
- ↑ Wildstein, David (June 30, 2021). Donald Rumsfeld’s New Jersey connection. New Jersey Globe. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
- ↑ Wildstein, David (August 9, 2020). Flashback: New Jerseyans on Nixon resignation in 1974. New Jersey Globe. Retrieved August 8, 2021.
External links
- Profile at the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
- Profile at Social Networks and Archival Context
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