John O. Pendleton

John Overton Pendleton (born July 4, 1851 in Wellsburg , Brooke County , Virginia , † December 24, 1916 in Wheeling , West Virginia ) was an American politician . Between 1889 and 1890 and again from 1891 to 1895 he represented the first constituency of the state of West Virginia in the US House of Representatives .

Career

John Pendleton was born in Wellsburg in 1851, which was then still part of Virginia and has been part of West Virginia since 1863. In the year he was born, he moved to Wheeling with his family. Between 1865 and 1869 he attended Aspen Hill Academy in Louisa County in Virginia and then until 1871 Bethany College in West Virginia. After studying law and being admitted to the bar in 1874, he began working in his new profession in Wheeling in 1874.

Pendleton was a member of the Democratic Party . In 1886 he ran unsuccessfully for the West Virginia Senate . In 1888 he was elected to the US House of Representatives in Washington, DC in the first district of the state , where he succeeded the no longer running Republican Nathan Goff on March 4, 1889 . His choice was contested by George W. Atkinson . After this challenge was granted, Pendleton had to cede his mandate on February 26, 1890 to Atkinson. However, since he won the following two congressional elections in 1890 and 1892, he was able to complete two terms in Congress between March 4, 1891 and March 3, 1895 . From 1893 he was chairman of the committee that dealt with private land claims.

For the elections of 1894, John Pendleton was no longer nominated by his party for another term. He then retired to Wheeling, where he again worked as a lawyer. He died there in December 1916.

Web links

• John O. Pendleton in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• John O. Pendleton in the database of Find a Grave (English)