George C. Pendleton

George Cassety Pendleton (* April 23, 1845 in Viola, Warren County, Tennessee; † January 19, 1913 in Temple, Texas ) was an American politician. Between 1893 and 1897 he represented the state of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

George Pendleton attended the common schools and the Hannah High School. In 1857 he moved with his parents to Belton, Texas, where he worked in commerce and agriculture. During the Civil War he served in the army of the Confederacy. After the war, he sat at the Academy Waxahachie in Ellis County continuing his education. Then he was twelve years as a traveling salesman. He then worked again in trade and agriculture. At the same time he proposed as a member of the Democratic Party launched a political career. Between 1876 and 1910 he was a delegate at all regional democratic party days in Texas. From 1882 to 1888 Pendleton sat as an MP in the Texas House of Representatives, which he was president in 1886. In the years 1890-1892 he served as lieutenant governor of his state. In July 1896 he was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in part, was first nominated on the William Jennings Bryan as their presidential candidate.

In the congressional elections of 1892 Pendleton was in the seventh election district of Texas in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of William H. Crain on March 4, 1893. After a re-election he was able to complete in Congress until March 3, 1897 two legislative sessions. In 1896 he declined a further nomination. After the end of his time in the U.S. House of Representatives Pendleton went into the banking industry. He also studied law. After his made ​​in 1900 admitted to the bar he began in Temple to work in his new profession. In this city he is on January 19, 1913 and passed away.