Nathanael Greene Pendleton (August 25, 1793 – June 16, 1861) was a

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from

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, and the father of George Hunt Pendleton. Born in

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, August 25, 1793, he moved to

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with his parents (

Nathaniel Pendleton Nathaniel Pendleton (October 27, 1756 – October 20, 1821) was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Georgia. Education and career Born on October 27, 1756, in New Kent County, Colony of Vir ...

and Susan Bard Pendleton). Pendleton was graduated from Columbia College at New York City in 1813. He studied law and was

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. He served in the War of 1812. He moved to Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1818 and practiced law. He served as a member of the Ohio Senate, State senate 1825–1827. Pendleton was elected as a Whig Party (United States), Whig to the 27th United States Congress, Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843). He did not seek renomination in 1842. He died in Cincinnati, Ohio, June 16, 1861. He was interred in Spring Grove Cemetery. His great-granddaughter Nathalie Schenck Laimbeer was a pioneering woman banker in New York in the 1910s and 1920s.

Sources

A Guide to the Pendleton Family Papers, 1775-1881

References

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