When you trace the roots of the Frelinghuysen family back to the American Revolution, you can start with Frederick Frelinghuysen, who was the very model of a modern Major-General. Frelinghuysen was a colonel in the Continental Army before his election...
Most people in New Jersey politics today probably never heard of Albert Vreeland or Frank Osmers, two young New Jersey Congressmen who placed patriotism above politics and the security of our nation ahead of their own political careers. Vreeland first...
Orange resident George B. McClellan served as the Commanding General of the U.S. Army during the Civil War and later served one term as the Governor of New Jersey. He carried New Jersey as the Democratic nominee for president when...
Six young World War I veterans were elected to the New Jersey State Assembly during the first three years after the war ended: Francis A. Stanton (D-Hoboken) and Thomas Lloyd Lewis (R-Asbury Park) in 1918; Felix Forlenza (D-South Orange) and...
Seventeen of New Jersey’s 56 governors have served in the U.S. military. The last was Jon Corzine, who was in the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve from 1969 to 1975. The first governor of New Jersey, William Livingston, was a Brigadier...
Five of the original six members of New Jersey’s congressional delegation in 1789 were veterans of the America War of Independence. Jonathan Elmer, one of the state’s two original United States Senators, was a captain of the a Militia company...
Assemblyman Samuel H. Cavileer (R-Port Republic) was a 23-year-old mariner with a fleet coasting off the coast of Charleston when Fort Sumpter fell in April 1861. He returned home to New Jersey and immediately enlisted in the 4th New Jersey...