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Senate Years of Service: 1879-1885 Party: Democrat
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PENDLETON, George Hunt, (son of Nathanael Greene Pendleton),
a Representative and a Senator from Ohio; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 19, 1825;
attended the local schools and Cincinnati College; attended Heidelberg University, Germany; studied
law; admitted to the bar in 1847 and commenced practice in Cincinnati; member, State senate
1854-1856; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress; elected as a
Democrat to the Thirty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1865);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth Congress; one of the managers
appointed by the House of Representatives in 1862 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against
Judge West H. Humphreys; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for vice president in 1864;
unsuccessful candidate for election in 1866 to the Fortieth Congress; unsuccessful Democratic
candidate for governor of Ohio in 1869; president of the Kentucky Central Railroad 1869-1879;
elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1879, to March 3,
1885; unsuccessful candidate for renomination; Democratic onference Chairman 1881-1885;
appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Germany in 1885, and served until his
death in Brussels, Belgium, November 24, 1889; interment in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati,
Ohio.
BibliographyAmerican National Biography; Dictionary of American Biography; Mach, Thomas S. George Hunt Pendleton, The Ohio
Idea and Political Continuity in Reconstruction America. Ohio History 108
(Summer-Autumn 1999): 125-144; Mach, Thomas S. Family Ties, Party Realities, and Political
Ideology: George Hunt Pendleton and Partisanship in Antebellum Cincinnati. Ohio Valley
History 3:2 (2003): 17-30.
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