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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—VirginiaEdmund PENDLETON
(1721-1803)
PENDLETON, Edmund, (uncle
of Nathaniel Pendleton and John Penn), a Delegate from Virginia;
born in Caroline County, Va., September 9, 1721; completed
preparatory studies; clerk, Caroline County Court, in 1740; studied
law; was admitted to the bar in 1741 and practiced; justice of the
peace in 1751; member of the Virginia House of Burgesses 1752-1774;
member of the committee of correspondence in 1773 and of the
provincial convention in 1774; Member of the Continental Congress
in 1774 and 1775; president of the committee of safety in 1775;
president of the Virginia conventions in 1775 and 1776; member of
the state house of delegates in 1776 and 1777; judge of the general
court and the court of chancery in 1777; presiding judge of the
court of appeals in 1779; member and president of the Virginia
ratification convention in 1788; died in Richmond, Va., October 23,
1803; interment at Edmundsbury, eight miles southeast of Bowling
Green, Va.; in 1907 was reinterred in Bruton Parish Church
Cemetery, Williamsburg, Va.
Bibliography
Mays, David J. Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803: A Biography.
Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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