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===U.S. Senate, 1871–77===
===U.S. Senate, 1871–77===
Frelinghuysen returned to the Senate from the state's Class III seat in 1871.<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=354990 NJ US Senate Race - Jan 01, 1871]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved November 8, 2021.</ref>
Frelinghuysen returned to the Senate from the state's Class III seat in 1871.<ref>[https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=354990 NJ US Senate Race - Jan 01, 1871]. ''Our Campaigns''. Retrieved November 8, 2021.</ref>
During his tenure, Frelinghuysen allied with the GOP Stalwart faction whose members tended to utilize [[patronage]] effectively, though was considered to have a clean record.<ref name=garfieldandarthur/>
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.