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 Virgi ...

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 The War of 1812 (18 June 1812 – 17 February 1815) was fought by the United States of America and its indigenous allies against the United Kingdom and its allies in British North America, with limited participation by Spain in Florida. It bega ...

. He moved to

Cincinnati, Ohio Cincinnati ( ) is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County. Settled in 1788, the city is located at the northern side of the confluence of the Licking and Ohio rivers, the latter of which marks the state line wit ...

, 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

1793 births 1861 deaths Politicians from Savannah, Georgia Ohio lawyers Ohio state senators Burials at Spring Grove Cemetery Columbia College (New York) alumni American military personnel of the War of 1812 Whig Party members of the United States House of Representatives from Ohio 19th-century American politicians Pendleton family {{Ohio-Representative-stub