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Frelinghuysen (JOSEPH SHER- MAN a United)

JOSEPH SHER- MAN, a United States senator from New Jersey, born in Raritan, N. J. in 1869.

He engaged in business and became director and officer of many important financial institutions. He was an unsuccessful candidate for the New Jersey FREMONT Senate in 1902, but was elected in 1904 and again in 1908. In 1910 he was president of the Senate and acting governor of the State. In 1916 he was elected to the United States Senate.

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