Frelinghuysen was a senator from New Jersey and was a Republican. He served from 1871 to 1877.
He was previously a senator from New Jersey as a Republican from 1866 to 1869.
![Photo of Sen. Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen [R-NJ, 1871-1877]](/static/legislator-photos/404315-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Jan 1866 to Mar 1877, Frelinghuysen missed 479 of 2,591 roll call votes, which is 18.5%. This is better than the median of 31.2% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1877. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
