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Located just north of the historic town of Morristown and adjacent to the regional Morristown Municipal Airport, Hanover Township boasts many public attractions including the Whippany Railway Museum, the Frelinghuysen Arboretum, and the Morris County Library.

Frelinghuysen Township is a Township in Warren County, New Jersey, United States.

Frelinghuysen Township was incorporated from Hardwick Township on March 7, 1848.

Frelinghuysen Township is governed under the Township form of government with a five-member Township Committee.

Members of the Frelinghuysen Township Committee are Mayor Tom Charles ( R, 2012 ), Deputy Mayor Dave Boynton ( R, 2011 ), Alan DeCarolis ( R, 2013 ), Frank Desidero ( R, 2013 ) and Dale Durling ( R, 2012 ).

Frelinghuysen Township is in the 5th Congressional district.

Frelinghuysen Township is in the

Children in public school for grades Pre-K through 6 attend the Frelinghuysen Township School District, which served 187 students as of the 2008-09 school year.

Notable current and former residents of Frelinghuysen Township include:

* Frelinghuysen Township website

* Warren County page for Frelinghuysen Township

* Frelinghuysen Township School

* Data for the Frelinghuysen Township School, National Center for Education Statistics

Upon its incorporation in 1848, Frelinghuysen Township, New Jersey was named after him.

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Not only is Mr. Frelinghuysen a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, but he is the grandson of the man who was instrumental in opening relations between the United States and Korea, Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, Secretary of State in the administration of Chester A. Arthur.

Next year is the 80th anniversary of the signing of the treaty between Korea and the United States and experts in Seoul are trying to find the correspondence between Frederick Frelinghuysen, who was Secretary of State in 1883 and 1884, and Gen. Lucius Foote, who was the first minister to Korea.

Theodore Frelinghuysen was nominated as Clay's running mate.

Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen ( August 4, 1817May 20, 1885 ) was a member of the United States Senate representing New Jersey and a United States Secretary of State.

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 and 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 ( 1787 – 1862 ), 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 was 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.

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 buried in Lexington Cemetery, and Theodore Frelinghuysen, Clay's vice-presidential candidate in the election of 1844, gave the eulogy.

The Knox-Porter Resolution ending United States involvement in World War I was signed by President Harding at the estate of New Jersey Senator Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen, Sr. on July 2, 1921.

Raritan Public Library is located in what was originally the homestead of 1700s colonel, Frederick Frelinghuysen.

According to the book Historical Sites of Warren County, the township was named after the Honorable Theodorus Jacobus Frelinghuysen, a minister and theologian of the Dutch Reformed Church who came to New Jersey in 1720.

Theodorus was the grandfather of Theodore Frelinghuysen, the noted statesman, educator and running mate of presidential candidate Henry Clay on the Whig Party ticket in the 1844 election, and who is also credited as the inspiration for the township's name.

He was elected as a Federalist to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Frederick Frelinghuysen and served from November 12, 1796 to March 4, 1799, but declined to be a candidate for reelection.

In March 1884, with the help of President Chester A. Arthur and Secretary of State Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, the Cardinal helped save the Pontifical North American College from spoilation by the Italian government.

Frelinghuysen was elected to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1793 to November 12, 1796, when he resigned.

Theodore Frelinghuysen ( March 28, 1787April 12, 1862 ) was an American politician, serving as New Jersey Attorney General, United States Senator, and Mayor of Newark, New Jersey before running as a candidate for Vice President with Henry Clay on the Whig ticket in the election of 1844.

Campaigning against the 18th Amendment ( Prohibition ) and with the support of the Hague Democratic Political Machine, Edwards defeated incumbent Republican Joseph S. Frelinghuysen by almost 90, 000 votes and served from March 4, 1923, to March 4, 1929.

Hardenbergh married Dinah Van Bergh, widow of his mentor, John Frelinghuysen on 18 March 1756 at Raritan, New Jersey.

Joseph Sherman Frelinghuysen, Sr. ( March 12, 1869 – February 8, 1948 ) represented New Jersey as a Republican in the United States Senate from 1917 to 1923.

John Frederick Frelinghuysen ( March 21, 1776 – April 10, 1833 ) was an American general and lawyer.

John Frelinghuysen was born in Millstone, New Jersey on March 21, 1776 to Frederick Theodore Frelinghuysen and Gertrude Schenck.