George Hunt Pendleton ( 1825 - 1889 ) - American politician and lawyer, US Senator from Ohio , member of the Democratic Party of the United States. He received the nickname "Gentleman George" for his demeanor. He was a candidate for the post of vice president of the United States during the Civil War in 1864.
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He is well known as the main author of the Law on the Organization of the Civil (that is, state) Service of 1883, called the Pendleton Law.
Biography
Pendleton was born July 19, 1825 in Cincinnati , Ohio , into a family of Ohio lawyer and congressman Nathaniel Green Pendleton. His grandfather, Nathaniel Pendleton, served as an officer at the headquarters of General George Washington during the war, and later served as a judge in the United States District Court.
George Pendleton attended local schools and then at Cincinnati College. After graduating from college in 1841, he studied law at the University of Heidelberg in Germany . After receiving a diploma, he was admitted to the college of lawyers in 1847 and began practicing in Cincinnati . He married Alice Kay, daughter of the famous American lawyer Francis Scott Kay.
Pendleton is a member of the Ohio State Senate from 1854 to 1856. In 1854, he participated in the elections to the 34th US Congress, but to no avail.
In 1857, he was elected from the Democratic Party to the 35th Congress, and was also re-elected at three subsequent congresses until 1865. Pendleton was known as the leading anti-war Democrat ( Copperhead ) and advocated peace with the Confederacy against Lincoln 's political course.
Pendleton was one of the leaders of the House of Representatives in 1862 to conduct impeachment proceedings against West N. Humphries, the District Judge of Tennessee . He was the leader of the Democratic Party's peace faction and had close ties to Democrats from the Northern Union who opposed the civil war .
Pendleton took part in the presidential election of 1864 for the post of vice president along with George B. McClellan (a supporter of the continuation of the war). Their opponents were Abraham Lincoln (as president) and Andrew Johnson (as vice president). McClellan and Pendleton lost, gaining about 45% of the vote. In the same year, Pendleton was not even re-elected to Congress.
After the war, he opposed the Thirteenth Amendment to the US Constitution and the Civil Rights Act of 1866.
Pendleton also could not be elected to the 40th US Congress . He claimed the presidential nomination from the Democratic Party in 1868, was close to victory, but lost to Horatio Seymour . He was then an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for the post of Governor of Ohio in 1869, losing the election to Rutherford B. Hayes .
He temporarily left politics, returned to law practice and became president of the Kentucky Central Railroad Company, working in this position until he was elected to the US Senate from the Democrats in 1879.
He worked in the Senate from 1879 to 1885. During this time, he passed the Civil Service Law, which was a kind of reaction to the assassination of US President James A. Garfield .
In 1885, he was appointed by President Grover Cleveland as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to the German Empire . He died on November 24, 1889 in Brussels , Belgium , and was buried at the Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati , Ohio .
The city of in Oregon is named after him. His house in Cincinnati is a historical monument and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966.
Notes
- ↑ SNAC - 2010.
- ↑ Encyclopædia Britannica