George H. Pendleton

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George H. Pendleton (around 1855–65)

George Hunt Pendleton (born July 19, 1825 in Cincinnati , Ohio , † November 24, 1889 in Brussels ) was an American democratic politician. He was a member of both houses of Congress , from 1857 to 1865 as a member of the House of Representatives and from 1879 to 1885 as Senator for Ohio. In the US presidential election in 1864 , he was a runner-up for George B. McClellan . From 1885 to 1889 he was ambassador to Germany.

Life

Pendleton was the son of the lawyer and politician Nathanael G. Pendleton . He attended Cincinnati College and the University of Heidelberg and took up a lawyer in Cincinnati in 1847.

From 1854 to 1856 he was a member of the Ohio Senate . After the failure of his candidacy in 1854, he was elected as a Democrat to the US House of Representatives in 1857 , to which he belonged until 1865. He took in 1862 on behalf of the House of the impeachment proceedings against West H. Humphreys , a judge in Tennessee, in part. In 1864 he was not re-elected. In the same year he was run as a Democratic runner-up for the presidential election , in which George McClellan defeated incumbent Abraham Lincoln .

After the end of the civil war , he was the leader of the "greenbacker" movement, which advocated the repayment of war bonds in paper money. He failed again in the congressional elections in 1866, in the Democratic primaries for the presidential election in 1868 and in the application for governor of Ohio in 1868 (against Rutherford B. Hayes ). From 1869 to 1879 he was chairman of the Kentucky Central Railroad . In 1879 he was elected to the US Senate for Ohio, to which he was a member until 1885. From 1881 to 1885 he served as Conference Chairman of the Senate Democrats. Pendleton was the initiator of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883. His bid for re-nomination to the Senate in 1885 was unsuccessful. In 1885 he was appointed envoy to Germany by Grover Cleveland and held this office until his death in 1889. He was buried in Spring Grove Cemetery , Cincinnati.

The city of Pendleton in Oregon is named after Pendleton . The George H. Pendleton House in Cincinnati was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1966.

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SURNAME Pendleton, George H.
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pendleton, George Hunt
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American politician
DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1825
PLACE OF BIRTH Cincinnati , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1889
Place of death Brussels