Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-07-06
SENATORIAL FAMILIES.

| IIOnors That Have Desrcndad From
Father to SON nmd Further.
| From the New York Tribune.
| In this country. where distinction is
| won by individual worth rather than by
| wealth or birth, it is rather a striking fact
| that in all legislative history only five in
| stances occur where the honor of seat
| in the United States Senate has descended
| in the same family from generation to
generation" said Attorney General Stock
| ten of New Jersey, some time ago, speaking
| of the death of the late Senator Colqui,t
! of Georgia.
Following up the suggestion in these
words, many facts were brought to light
not generally known. but interesting, never
theless. to an explorer Of the bypaths of
history. The families thus honorad by
their feliow-citzens are the Eayards of
Delaware, the Camerons of Peansy wanna,
the Colquitts of Georgia and the Freling-
huySenS and Stocktons of New Jersey.
With the Stocktons. the descent has been
longest and most direct Richard Stockton
was a member of the Continental Con-
gress and while so serving signed he i'm
mortal Declaration. HIS son Richard serv-
ed in the United States Senate from 1913
! until 179G: his grandson, the celebrated
Commodore Robert Stockton Of 1872, serv-
ed in like capacity from 1851 until 1853.
and his grea t-grandson, ]ohl =. Stockton.
now attorney general of New Jersey. vas
elected Senator in 1865 and again in 1863
The Bayards also can boast of four sena-
torial representatives, although the descent
has not been entirely from father to son.
James A., his sons James a. and Richard
H. AMI his grandson. Thomas T.. the pres
ent ambassador to England, have all had
seats in the Senate.
Three Frelinghuysens have baen Sena-
tors; Frederick, his son Theodore, and his
grandson, Frederick Theodore. With the
Colqultts and Camerons the Office has de
scended from fathe" to son.
Remarka Bile indeed has been the public
career of these five families. nor has it
been confined to Legislative action alone.
In almost every field Of peaceful and war
like achievement have they been pTomf-
nGnt. and on almost every page of their
courtrys history have their names been
written. James \. Bayard Richard Henry
Bayard and John T. Stockton have been
foreign ministers. +. T. F'rr!inEhuysen was
nominated as minister to ENGLAND and was
confirmed by tie Senate. hut declined the
Office. and Thomas F. Bayard is The present
ambassador at the court of St. James.
Frederick .Frc!ln.kuyscn and Richard
Stockton We're soldiers Of 1I16, and bullet
from Frelinghu.$en pistol put an end to
the life of The hated IIessan commander,
Col Rahl at the capture of Trenton in
HI Robert +. Stockton won national
fame as a commander. and daring the civil
war A. H. Colqu:tt was southern briga-
,Ciier."
simon Cameron and his son Donald We're
both Secretaries of War. the former under
Lincoln. the latter under Grant. Frederick
T. FrclnghuyScn was Arthur's Secretary of
State and N f Stockton declined the port
folio of the navy. T. T. Frelinghuysen and
John p Stockton have been attorneys gen
eral of New Jersey. and the former was
the vice presidential nominee when Clay
was a candidate fer the presidency. They
have laid hold on the judges ermine. too,
ard the scholars cap, as well the sol
Giers sword and the statesman's gown.
Richard Stockton, first, was a member of
the colonial council, and was unanimously
elected first chief Justice of New Jersey.
w. T. CoGuitt was justice of the supreme
court of Georgia. and Frederick r. Freling
huysen was president of the University Of
New York and of Rutgers ColleSe.
Widely different as they are in the ways
they have trodder to fame, in the states
from which they came. and the ideas they
l.eld on the great national questions with
which they have been identified since the
foundation of the government. there is one
bond of union between them all, the tie of
education. OF the fifteen men under dis
cussion, thirteen have been college bred
ard all of these received their education in
New Jersey, all but one at Princeton Col
lege