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Frederick T. Frelinghuysen (view source)
Revision as of 00:11, November 9, 2021
, 00:11, November 9, 2021→U.S. Senate, 1871–77
In 1876, Frelinghuysen was appointed to a special committee tasked with examining the [[United States presidential election, 1876|presidential election that year]] between [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] and [[Samuel J. Tilden]], where Hayes won the electoral vote though lost the popular vote.<ref name=obituary/> His name substituted that of Stalwart leader [[Roscoe Conkling]], whose proposed selection for the committee drew fierce opposition. The group ultimately established the Compromise of 1877 which ended Reconstruction and marked the return of the South into the hands of [[Jim Crow]] Democrats.
In 1876, Frelinghuysen was appointed to a special committee tasked with examining the [[United States presidential election, 1876|presidential election that year]] between [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] and [[Samuel J. Tilden]], where Hayes won the electoral vote though lost the popular vote.<ref name=obituary/> His name substituted that of Stalwart leader [[Roscoe Conkling]], whose proposed selection for the committee drew fierce opposition. The group ultimately established the Compromise of 1877 which ended Reconstruction and marked the return of the South into the hands of [[Jim Crow]] Democrats.
Sen. Frelinghuysen retired from office in 1877 and was succeeded by John R. McPherson.<ref name=obituary/>
==Death and burial==
==Death and burial==