GEORGE

See also:

• HUNT, ALFRED WILLIAM (183o-1896)
• HUNT, HENRY (1i73-1835)
• HUNT, HENRY JACKSON (1819-1889)
• HUNT, JAMES HENRY LEIGH (1784-1859)
• HUNT, ROBERT (1807-1887)
• HUNT, THOMAS STERRY (1826-1892)
• HUNT, WILLIAM HENRY (1790—1864)
• HUNT, WILLIAM HOLMAN (1827-1910)
• HUNT, WILLIAM MORRIS (1824-1879)

HUNT

See also:

• PENDLETON, EDMUND (1721—1803)
• GEORGE HUNT PENDLETON (1825—1889)

PENDLETON (1825—1889)  , American lawyer and legislator, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, on the 25th of July 1825 . He was educated at the university of Heidelberg, studied law, was admitted to the bar, and began to practise at Cincinnati . He was a member of the Ohio Senate in 1854 and 1855, and from 1857 to 1865 was a Democratic member of the national House of Representatives, in which he opposed the war policy of Lincoln . In 1864 he was the Democratic candidate for vice-president . After leaving Congress he became one of the earliest champions of the " Ohio idea " (which he is said to have originated), demanding that the government should pay the principal of its 5—2o-year 6% bonds in the " greenback " currency instead of in coin . The agricultural classes of the West regarded this as a means of relief, and Pendleton became their recognized leader and a candidate for the Democratic nomination to the presidency in 1868, but he failed to receive the requisite two-thirds majority . In 1869 he was the Democratic candidate for governor of Ohio, but was defeated by Rutherford B . Hayes . For the next ten years he devoted himself to the practice of law and to the supervision of the Kentucky Railroad Company, of which he had become president in 1869 . From 1879 to 1885 he was a Democratic member of the United States Senate, and introduced the so-called Pendleton Act of 1883 for reforming the civil service, hostility to which lost him his seat in 1885 . He was minister to Germany from 1885 to the summer of 1889, and died at Brussels on the 24th of November 1889 .