George H. Pendleton, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

George H. Pendleton

American lawyer, politician and businessman

Date of Birth: 19-Jul-1825

Place of Birth: Cincinnati, Ohio, United States

Date of Death: 24-Nov-1889

Profession: lawyer, politician, diplomat

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About George H. Pendleton

  • George Hunt Pendleton (July 19, 1825 – November 24, 1889) was an American politician and lawyer.
  • He represented Ohio in both houses of Congress and served as the Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1864. After studying at the University of Cincinnati and Heidelberg University, Pendleton practiced law in his home town of Cincinnati, Ohio.
  • He was the son of Congressman Nathanael G.
  • Pendleton and the son-in-law of poet Francis Scott Key.
  • After serving in the Ohio Senate, Pendleton won election to the United States House of Representatives.
  • During the Civil War, he emerged as a leader of the Copperheads, a group of Democrats who favored peace with the Confederacy.
  • After the war, he opposed the Thirteenth Amendment and the Civil Rights Act of 1866. The 1864 Democratic National Convention nominated a ticket of George B.
  • McClellan, who favored continuing the war, and Pendleton, who opposed it.
  • The ticket was defeated by the Republican ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson, and Pendleton lost his Congressional re-election race that same year.
  • Pendleton was a strong contender for the presidential nomination at the 1868 Democratic National Convention, but was defeated by Horatio Seymour.
  • After Pendleton lost the 1869 Ohio gubernatorial election, he temporarily left politics. He served as the president of the Kentucky Central Railroad before returning to Congress.
  • Pendleton won election to the U.S.
  • Senate in 1879 and served a single term, becoming Chairman of the Senate Democratic Conference.
  • After the assassination of President James A.
  • Garfield, he wrote and helped pass the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883.
  • The act required many civil service hires to be based on merit rather than political connections.
  • Passage of the act lost him support in Ohio and he was not nominated for a second term in the Senate.
  • President Grover Cleveland appointed him as the ambassador to the German Empire.
  • He served in that position until 1889, dying later that same year.

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