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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—VirginiaPENDLETON, Edmund
(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.
Hilldrup, Robert Leroy. The Life and Times of Edmund Pendleton
. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1939.
Mays, David John. Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803: A Biography
. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1952.
———. Sketch of Edmund Pendleton, The First President of the Supreme Court of Appeals of Virginia
. Richmond: Richmond Press, 1926.
Pendleton, Edmund. An Address of the Honorable Edmund Pendleton of Virginia to the American Citizens on the present State of Our Country
. Boston: Printed and sold by Benjamin Edes, 1799.
———. The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton, 1734-1803
. 2 vols. Edited by David J. Mays. Charlottesville, Va.: University Press of Virginia, 1967.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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