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George Hunt Pendleton (
July 19,
1825 –
November 24,
1889) was a
Representative and a
Senator from
Ohio. Nicknamed
"Gentleman George" for his demeanor, he was the
Democratic nominee for
Vice President of the United States during the
Civil War in 1864, running alongside
George B. McClellan, who lost to
Abraham Lincoln.
Pendleton was born in
Cincinnati, Ohio. He was the son of
Nathanael Greene Pendleton and attended the local schools and
Cincinnati College and the
University of Heidelberg in
Germany. Pendleton studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1847 and commenced practice in Cincinnati.
He was a member of the
Ohio Senate from 1854 to 1856. In 1854 he ran unsuccessfully for the
Thirty-fourth United States Congress. Three years later he was elected as a
Democrat to the
Thirty-fifth Congress and also succeeded in being reelected to the three following Congresses (
March 4,
1857 to
March 3,
1865), but in 1864 he failed to be elected to the
Thirty-ninth Congress. Pendleton was a noted antiwar Democrat.
He was one of the managers appointed by the
House of Representatives in 1862 to conduct the
impeachment proceedings against
West H. Humphreys, United States judge for several districts of
Tennessee. He ran in the
1864 U.S. presidential elections for
Vice President, together with George McClellan. Their opponents were Abraham Lincoln (President) and
Andrew Johnson (nominee for Vice President). McClellan and Pendleton lost, receiving about 45% of the vote.
Pendleton also failed to be elected to the
Fortieth Congress and was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for
Governor of Ohio in 1869, losing to
Rutherford B. Hayes.
In 1869 he became president of the Kentucky Central Railroad and kept this position until he was elected as a
Democrat to the
United States Senate in 1879. He served six years in the Senate from
March 4,
1879, to
March 3,
1885, but was unsuccessful in winning renomination. During this time, he sponsored the
Pendleton Act of 1883 in response to the
assassination of President
James A. Garfield by
Charles Guiteau. The Act helped put an end to the system of
patronage that was in widespread use at the time.
From 1881 to 1885 he was
Chairman of the Democratic Conference. He was appointed
Envoy Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to Germany in 1885, and served until his death in
Brussels,
Belgium. He is interred in
Spring Grove Cemetery,
Cincinnati, Ohio.
The city of
Pendleton, Oregon is named after him. The Senator
George H. Pendleton House in Cincinnati is a
National Historical Landmark and was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
Bibliography
- American
and Speeches of George H. Pendton." Cinati: Miai Printing & Publishing Co., 1868.
- Mach, Thomas Stuart. "'Gentleman George' Hunt Pendleton: A Study in Political Continuity." Ph.D. of Akron, 1996.
- ___. "George Hunt Pendleton, The and Political {{Conio|P000
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