Edmund H. Pendleton

Edmund Henry Pendleton (* 1788 in Savannah, Georgia, † February 25, 1862 in New York City ) was an American lawyer and politician. Between 1831 and 1833 he represented the State of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives.

Career

Edmund Henry Pendleton was born about five years after the end of the Revolutionary War, Savannah. He received a liberal education. Pendleton studied law. After receiving his admission to the bar he practiced for several years in Hyde Park. Between 1830 and 1840 he was a district judge in Dutchess County. Politically, he was a member of the Jacksonian Group. In the congressional elections of 1830 he was in the fifth electoral district of New York in the U.S. House of Representatives in Washington DC chosen, where he became the successor of Abraham Bockee on March 4, 1831. Pendleton retired after the March 3, 1833 out of the Congress. He died during the Civil War on February 25, 1862 in New York City and was buried in St. James' Churchyard in Hyde Park.