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George Hunt Pendleton (July 19, 1825 – November 24, 1889) was an American politician and lawyer. He represented Ohio in both houses of Congress and was the unsuccessful Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States in 1864.
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George Hunt Pendleton (19 de julho de 1825 – 24 de novembro de 1889) foi um congressista e senador pelo estado de Ohio, no norte dos Estados Unidos. Ele serviu na Câmara dos Representantes como líder da facção pacifista (os Copperheads) do Partido Democrata durante a guerra civil americana.
1 de abr. de 2024 · George Pendleton was an American lawyer and legislator, an advocate of civil service reform and sponsor of the Pendleton Civil Service Act (1883), which created the modern civil service system. Admitted to the bar in 1847, Pendleton, a Democrat, practiced law in Cincinnati and in 1853 was elected.
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19 de mar. de 2024 · George H. Pendleton was a leading member of the Peace Democrats, who opposed the Civil War and the Lincoln administration. In 1864, Democrats selected Pendleton as George McClellan’s vice-presidential running-mate in their party’s unsuccessful bid to unseat President Lincoln.
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19 de mar. de 2024 · George Hunt Pendleton was a Democratic Congressman and Senator from Ohio. A leading Peace Democrat during the American Civil War, Pendleton was also the sponsor of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883.
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1 de set. de 2008 · The nineteenth-century Ohio politician George H. Pendleton is probably best known to historians as the principal author of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883.
23 de mai. de 2018 · George Hunt Pendleton was a prominent nineteenth-century lawyer, congressman, senator, and ambassador who played the central role in passing the Civil Service Act, also known as the Pendleton Act of 1883 (5 U.S.C.A. § 1101 et seq.).
