George_H._Pendleton

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George H. Pendleton George H. Pendleton George Hunt Pendleton United States Senator from Ohio In office March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1885 Preceded by Succeeded by Born Died Political party Profession Thomas S. Matthews Henry B. Payne July 19, 1825(1825-07-19) Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S. November 24, 1889 (aged 64) Brussels, Belgium Democratic Politician, Lawyer Currier and Ives print of the Democratic presidential party ticket, 1864. Lithograph with watercolor. Cincinnati College and the University of Heidelberg in Germany. Pendleton studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1847 and commenced practice in Cincinnati. He was a member of the Ohio Senate from 1854 to 1856. In 1854 he ran unsuccessfully for the Thirty-fourth United States Congress. Three years later he was elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth Congress and also succeeded in being reelected to the three following Congresses (March 4, 1857 to March 3, 1865), but in 1864 he failed to be elected to the Thirty-ninth Congress. Pendleton was a noted antiwar Democrat. He was one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1862 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against West H. Humphreys, United States judge for several districts of Tennessee. He was a leader of the peace faction of the Democratic George Hunt Pendleton (July 19, 1825 – November 24, 1889) was a Representative and a Senator from Ohio. Nicknamed "Gentleman George" for his demeanor, he was the Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States during the Civil War in 1864, running as a peace Democrat with war Democrat George B. McClellan; they lost to Abraham Lincoln. He is best known as the principal author of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883 Pendleton was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was the son of Nathanael Greene Pendleton and attended the local schools and 1 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia George H. Pendleton interred in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio. Political role Pendleton had a very Jacksonian commitment to the Democratic party as the best, perhaps the only, mechanism through which ordinary Americans could shape government policies. Mach (2007) argues that Pendleton’s chief contribution was to show how a "Whiggish" willingness to use the power of government could be used to achieve Jacksonian ideals. So, while his Jacksonian commitment to states’ rights and limited government made him a dissenter during the Civil War, what Mach calls Pendleton’s Jacksonian "ardor to expand opportunities for ordinary Americans" was the basis for his leadership in civil service reform and his controversial plan to use greenbacks to repay federal debt. What appeared to be a substantive ideological shift, Mach argues, represented Pendleton’s pragmatic willingness to use new means to achieve old ends. George H. Pendleton in his elder years. party, with close ties to the Copperheads. He ran in the 1864 U.S. presidential elections for Vice President, together with George McClellan. Their opponents were Abraham Lincoln (President) and Andrew Johnson (nominee for Vice President). McClellan and Pendleton lost, receiving about 45% of the vote. Pendleton also failed to be elected to the Fortieth Congress and was an unsuccessful Democratic candidate for Governor of Ohio in 1869, losing to Rutherford B. Hayes. In 1869 he became president of the Kentucky Central Railroad and kept this position until he was elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate in 1879. He served six years in the Senate from March 4, 1879, to March 3, 1885, but was unsuccessful in winning renomination. During this time, he sponsored the Pendleton Act of 1883 in response to the assassination of President James A. Garfield by Charles Guiteau. The Act helped put an end to the system of patronage that was in widespread use at the time. From 1881 to 1885 he was Chairman of the Democratic Conference. He was appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Germany in 1885, and served until his death in Brussels, Belgium. He is Memorials The city of Pendleton, Oregon is named after him. The Senator George H. Pendleton House in Cincinnati is a National Historical Landmark and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. Bibliography • Mach, Thomas S. "Gentleman George" Hunt Pendleton: Party Politics and Ideological Identity in Nineteenth-Century America. (Kent State University Press, 2007) 317pp ISBN 978-0-87338-913-6.) External links • George H. Pendleton at Find A Grave Retrieved on 2009-04-14 Persondata NAME ALTERNATIVE NAMES SHORT American lawyer, politician DESCRIPTION and businessman DATE OF BIRTH July 19, 1825 Pendleton, George H. 2 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia United States House of Representatives Preceded by Timothy C. Day George H. Pendleton Member of the U.S. House of Representatives Succeeded by Benjamin from Ohio’s 1st congressional district March 4, 1857 – March 3, 1865 Eggleston Democratic Party vice presidential candidate Succeeded by 1864 (lost) Francis Preston Blair, Jr. Party political offices Preceded by Herschel Vespasian Johnson, Joseph Lane(1) Preceded by Thomas Stanley Matthews Diplomatic posts Preceded by John A. Kasson Notes and references 1. The Democratic party split in 1860, producing two vice-presidential candidates. Johnson was nominated by Northern Democrats; Lane was nominated by Southern Democrats. United States Senate United States Senator (Class 3) from Ohio March 4, 1879 – March 3, 1885 Served alongside: Allen G. Thurman, John Sherman Succeeded by Henry B. Payne United States Ambassador to Germany June 21, 1885 – April 25, 1889 Succeeded by William W. Phelps PLACE OF BIRTH DATE OF DEATH Cincinnati, Ohio November 24, 1889 PLACE OF DEATH Brussels, Belgium Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_H._Pendleton" Categories: 1825 births, 1889 deaths, Ambassadors of the United States, American railroad executives of the 19th century, Burials at Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Democratic Party (United States) vice presidential nominees, Members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio, Ohio Democrats, Ohio State Senators, Ohio lawyers, People of Ohio in the American Civil War, Politicians from Cincinnati, Ohio, United States Senators from Ohio, United States presidential candidates, 1868, University of Cincinnati alumni, University of Heidelberg alumni This page was last modified on 14 April 2009, at 19:14 (UTC). All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. (See Copyrights for details.) 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