Chambers, Talbot W. Memoir of the Life and Character of the late Hon. Theo. Frelinghuysen, LL.D. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1863. First Edition. [10528]
Black pebble publisher's cloth, 8 x 5 1/4 inches, binding clean & very good, tight. 1864 gift inscription in pencil on the ffep. Steel-engraved portrait of Frelinghuysen by W. G. Jackman with printed signature & tissue guard. 289 clean pp. plus publisher's catalogue. There is a thin stain in the top margin of the portrait; one leaf has and edge tear with no loss. Very good. Hardcover.
Theodore Frelinghuysen (1787-1862), a native of New Jersey, educated at the College of New Jersey at Princeton. Frelinghuysen was a successful lawyer before entering politics. He was made Attorney General of New Jersey (1817-1829), and elected to the United States Senate in 1829. He served two terms as mayor of Newark and in 1839 resigned to become chancellor of the University of the City of New York. In 1844 he was the candidate for Vice President during the presidential campaign of Henry Clay. He was known as the "Christian Statesman." In 1850 he became president of Rutgers College. He was a faithful member of the Dutch Reformed Church, and his many Christian associations include serving as president of the A.B.C.F.M. (1841-57), the American Bible Society (1846-62), the American Tract Society (1842-1846), the American Sunday School Union (1826-1861), and the American Colonization Society.
