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  Pendleton, George Hunt
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AffiliationDemocratic  
 
NameGeorge Hunt Pendleton
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Cincinnati, Ohio , United States
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Born July 19, 1825
DiedNovember 24, 1889 (64 years)
ContributorU Ole Polecat
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Aug 19, 2015 08:24pm
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InfoPENDLETON, George Hunt, (son of Nathanael Greene Pendleton), a Representative and a Senator from Ohio; born in Cincinnati, Ohio, July 19, 1825; attended the local schools and Cincinnati College; attended Heidelberg University, Germany; studied law; admitted to the bar in 1847 and commenced practice in Cincinnati; member, State senate 1854-1856; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1854 to the Thirty-fourth Congress; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-fifth and to the three succeeding Congresses (March 4, 1857-March 3, 1865); unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1864 to the Thirty-ninth Congress; one of the managers appointed by the House of Representatives in 1862 to conduct the impeachment proceedings against Judge West H. Humphreys; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for vice president in 1864; unsuccessful candidate for election in 1866 to the Fortieth Congress; unsuccessful Democratic candidate for governor of Ohio in 1869; president of the Kentucky Central Railroad 1869-1879; elected as a Democrat to the United States Senate and served from March 4, 1879, to March 3, 1885; unsuccessful candidate for renomination; Democratic onference Chairman 1881-1885; appointed Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to Germany in 1885, and served until his death in Brussels, Belgium, November 24, 1889; interment in Spring Grove Cemetery, Cincinnati, Ohio.

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Importance? 8.75000 Average

FAMILY
Wife Alice Key Pendleton 00, 0000-
Father Nathanael G. Pendleton 1793-1861
Father In-Law Francis Scott Key 1779-1843

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RACES
  03/23/1885 US Ambassador to Germany Won 100.00% (+100.00%)
  01/15/1878 OH US Senate Won 70.23% (+42.75%)
  09/05/1872 US President - Straight-Out Democratic Convention Lost 0.66% (-98.68%)
  10/12/1869 OH Governor Lost 49.13% (-1.61%)
  07/09/1868 US President - D Convention Lost 15.67% (-15.97%)
  10/09/1866 OH District 01 Lost 47.68% (-4.65%)
  11/08/1864 US Vice President Lost 9.01% (-81.97%)
  08/31/1864 US Vice President - D Convention Won 56.93% (+40.30%)
  10/14/1862 OH District 01 Won 54.04% (+8.07%)
  07/04/1861 US House Speaker Lost 0.53% (-52.13%)
  10/09/1860 OH District 01 Won 48.87% (+5.90%)
  02/01/1860 US House Speaker Lost 0.23% (-8.73%)
  10/12/1858 OH District 01 Won 51.24% (+2.49%)
  10/14/1856 OH District 01 Won 47.06% (+14.40%)
  10/10/1854 OH District 01 Lost 36.54% (-26.93%)
ENDORSEMENTS
US President - D Convention - Jul 09, 1868 D Horatio Seymour