Rodney Frelinghuysen

Rodney Frelinghuysen
Chair of the House Appropriations Committee
Incumbent
Assumed office January 3, 2017
Preceded by	Hal Rogers
Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey's 11th district
Incumbent
Assumed office January 3, 1995
Preceded by	Dean Gallo
Member of the New Jersey General Assembly from the 25th district
In office January 10, 1984 – January 3, 1995
Preceded by	James Barry
Succeeded by	Anthony Bucco
Personal details
Born	Rodney Procter Frelinghuysen (1946-04-29) April 29, 1946 (age 70) New York City, New York, U.S.
Political party	Republican
Spouse(s)	Virginia Robinson (1980–present)
Children	2
Education	Hobart College (BA) Trinity College, Connecticut
Military service
Allegiance	United States
Service/branch	United States Army
Years of service	1969–1971
Rank	Specialist 5
Unit	93rd Engineer Battalion
Battles/wars	Vietnam War

Rodney Procter Frelinghuysen /ˈfreɪlɪŋˌhaɪsən/ (born April 29, 1946) is the U.S. Representative for New Jersey's 11th congressional district, serving since 1995. The district includes most of Morris County, an affluent suburban county west of New York City. It also includes some of the wealthier areas near Newark and Paterson, and is one of the richest congressional districts in the nation in terms of median income. A member of the Republican Party, he also serves as Chair of the House Appropriations Committee since 2017.

Frelinghuysen was born in New York City to Peter Hood Ballantine Frelinghuysen II, a New Jersey politician and Beatrice Sterling Procter, an heir to the Procter & Gamble fortune.

He attended St. Mark's School, an exclusive Episcopal preparatory school in Southborough, Massachusetts. Rejected from Princeton, the alma mater of his father and grandfather, Frelinghuysen instead matriculated at Hobart College in New York. There he served as president of the Kappa Alpha Society and earned a BA in American history in 1969.

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