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PENDLETON, GEORGE HUNT (1825—1889)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 88 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PENDLETON, See also:GEORGE See also:HUNT (1825—1889) , See also:American lawyer and legislator, was See also:born in See also:Cincinnati, See also:Ohio, on the 25th of See also:July 1825. He was educated at the university of See also:Heidelberg, studied See also:law, was admitted to the See also:bar, and began to practise at Cincinnati. He was a member of the Ohio See also:Senate in 1854 and 1855, and from 1857 to 1865 was a Democratic member of the See also:national See also:House of Representatives, in which he opposed the See also:war policy of See also:Lincoln. In 1864 he was the Democratic See also:candidate for See also:vice-See also:president. After leaving See also:Congress he became one of the earliest champions of the " Ohio See also:idea " (which he is said to have originated), demanding that the See also:government should pay the See also:principal of its 5—2o-See also:year 6% bonds in the " greenback " currency instead of in See also:coin. The agricultural classes of the See also:West regarded this as a means of See also:relief, and Pendleton became their recognized See also:leader and a candidate for the Democratic nomination to the See also:presidency in 1868, but he failed to receive the requisite two-thirds See also:majority. In 1869 he was the Democratic candidate for See also:governor of Ohio, but was defeated by See also:Rutherford B. See also:Hayes. For the next ten years he devoted himself to the practice of law and to the supervision of the See also:Kentucky Railroad See also:Company, of which he had become president in 1869. From 1879 to 1885 he was a Democratic member of the See also:United States Senate, and introduced the so-called Pendleton See also:Act of 1883 for reforming the See also:civil service, hostility to which lost him his seat in 1885. He was See also:minister to See also:Germany from 1885 to the summer of 1889, and died at See also:Brussels on the 24th of See also:November 1889.

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