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PENDLETON, EDMUND (1721—1803)

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PENDLETON, See also:EDMUND (1721—1803) , See also:American lawyer and statesman, was See also:born, of See also:English Royalist descent, in See also:Caroline See also:county, See also:Virginia, on the 9th of See also:September 1721. He was self-educated, but after See also:reading See also:law and being admitted to the See also:bar (1744) his success was immediate. He served in the Virginia See also:House of Burgesses from 1752 until the organization of the See also:state See also:government in 1776, was the recognized See also:leader of the conservative Whigs, and took a leading See also:part in opposing the See also:British government. He was a member of the Virginia See also:committee of See also:correspondence in 1773, in 1774 was See also:president of the Virginia provincial See also:convention, and a member of the first See also:Continental See also:Congress. In 1776, as president of the provincial convention, which adopted a state constitution for Virginia, he See also:drew up the instructions to the Virginia members of Congress directing them to See also:advocate the See also:independence of the American colonies. In the same See also:year he became president of the Virginia committee of safety, and in See also:October was chosen the first See also:speaker of the House of Delegates. With See also:Jefferson and See also:Chancellor See also:George Wythe he drew up a new law See also:code for Virginia. He was president of the See also:court of See also:chancery in 1777—1788, and from 1779 until his See also:death was president of the Virginia court of appeals. He was an enthusiastic advocate of the Federal constitution, and in 1788 exerted strong See also:influence to secure its ratification by his native state. He was a leader of the Federalist party in Virginia until his death at See also:Richmond, Va., on the 23rd of October 1803.

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