Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen, Jr.
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Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen, Jr. (born January 17, 1916) represented New Jersey in the United States House of Representatives as a Republican from 1953 to 1975. He was born in New York City.
Peter Frelinghuysen comes from a long line of New Jersey politicians. He was the great-grandson of Frederick T. Frelinghuysen, the great-great-nephew of Theodore Frelinghuysen, the great-great-great-grandson of Frederick Frelinghuysen, and the father of Rodney Frelinghuysen.
He attended St. Mark's School in Southborough, Massachusetts and graduated from Princeton University in 1938. After practicing law in New York City, he served in the Office of Naval Intelligence from September 1942 to December 1945 obtaining the rank of lieutenant. He then studied at Columbia University, 1946–1947. He served as staff of the Foreign Affairs Task Force of the Hoover Commission in 1948 before returning to the private sector. He served as director of Howard Savings Bank in Livingston, New Jersey.
In 1952, he was elected to the House of Representatives representing New Jersey's 5th congressional district and served there until his retirement from politics in 1975.
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- Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen, Jr. on the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress
| Preceded by Charles Aubrey Eaton |
U.S. House of Representatives 5th District of New Jersey 1953–1975 |
Succeeded by Millicent Fenwick |
