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 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

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. He moved to

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, in 1818 and practiced law. He served as a member of the

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1825–1827. Pendleton was elected as a Whig to the Twenty-seventh Congress (March 4, 1841 – March 3, 1843). He did not seek renomination in 1842. He died in

, June 16, 1861. He was interred in

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. His great-granddaughter

Nathalie Schenck Laimbeer Nathalie Schenck Laimbeer (December 4, 1882 – October 25, 1929) was an American banker, philanthropist, and socialite. Early life Nathalie Pendleton Cutting Schenck was born in New York City, the daughter of Spotswood Dandridge Schenck and ...

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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