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GEORGE H. PENDLETON.The JLate United Stales Minister* to Germany Kxpires in Brussels.The Hon. George H. Pendleton, ex-Minister of the United States to Germany, died a few nights ago in Brussels. Belgium.George Hunt Pendleton, the son of Congressman Nathaniel Green Pendleton, was born in Cincinnati. Ohio. July 25. 1825. He received an academic education, after which he studied law and was admitted to the Ohio Bar. He was elected a State Senator in 1854-5, and afterward acted as Congressman from 1856 to 1865, having been elected on the Democratic ticket. During each term he served as a member of the Committee on Military Affairs, and in the Thirty-eighth Congress was a member of the Ways and Means Committee, as well as Chairman of a special committee on admitting Cabinet officers to the floor of the House. He was the candidate for the Vice-Presidency on the Democratic National ticket in 1864. with George B. McClellan. *Mr. Pendleton was an unsuccessful candidate for Governor of Ohio in 186b. and the same year was elected President of the Ken- .I tueky Railroad Company.In 1878 he was elected United States Senator, and as Chairman of the Committee on Civil Service Reform, introduced the Civil Service bill which became a law.He was appointed United States Minister to Germany by President Cleveland in 1885, and held that position until Cleveland went out of office.Mr. Pendleton, in 1846, married Alice, daughter of Francis Scott Key. Mrs. Pendleton and her daughter were killed in a runaway in Central Park, New York city, about a year ago, and their death produced a marked effect upon Mr. Pendleton.In April of last year Mr. Pendleton was the victim of a stroke of apoplexy, from the effects of which, it is thougnt, he never lt;fully recovered.
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Fisherman And Farmer
Edenton, North Carolina, US
Fri, Dec 06, 1889
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