Philip C. Pendleton
Philip C. Pendleton | |
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Judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia | |
In office May 6, 1825 – July 29, 1825 | |
Appointed by | John Quincy Adams |
Preceded by | John G. Jackson |
Succeeded by | Alexander Caldwell |
Member of the Virginia House of Delegates from the Berkeley County district | |
In office December 4, 1809 – December 2, 1810 | |
Preceded by | George Porterfield |
Succeeded by | George Porterfield |
In office December 2, 1805 – December 4, 1808 | |
Preceded by | Elisha Boyd |
Succeeded by | George Porterfield |
Personal details | |
Born | Philip Clayton Pendleton November 24, 1779 read law |
Philip Clayton Pendleton (November 24, 1779 – April 3, 1863) was a Virginia attorney, planter, politician and jurist. He briefly served as a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia. He previously served in the Virginia House of Delegates and as a Virginia state judge.
Education and career
Born on November 24, 1779, in
Meanwhile, Berkeley County voters elected Pendleton as one of their representatives in the Virginia House of Delegates (a part-time position) in 1805 and re-elected him the following year. Although he was not one of the two top vote-getters in 1807, one of the two men elected (Philip P. Wilson) died before the session began and Pendleton succeeded him, then was replaced by George Porterfield for one term, before he and Magnus Tate served together for a term, then Porterfield again replaced Pendleton.[6] Reportedly, his tenure in the Virginia General Assembly led to Pendleton's later aversion to further political involvement.[7] The Virginia General Assembly elected Pendleton as a member of the Board of Commissioners who met at the tavern at Rockfish Gap in 1818 and decided to locate the University of Virginia at Charlottesville.[citation needed] The group also included Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Marshall and among others, John G. Jackson, another future judge of the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia.[citation needed] (Pendleton's vote was for Lexington).[citation needed]
Military service
Pendleton served in the War of 1812, enlisting as a private in the militia company raised by fellow lawyer and planter Elisha Boyd in Martinsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia).[citation needed] He became the unit's paymaster.[citation needed] Their troop of Berkeley County militia defended Norfolk and Portsmouth Virginia against a British naval and land attack.[citation needed] Another Berkeley County militia troop would be the first to reach Washington, D.C. after the British burned the new nation's capitol.[citation needed]
Federal judicial service
Pendleton received a recess appointment from President John Quincy Adams on May 6, 1825, to a seat on the United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia vacated by Judge John G. Jackson.[1] His service terminated on July 29, 1825, due to his resignation.[1] His resignation was due to his unwillingness to undertake the rigors of constantly riding between courthouses in his district.[citation needed] Due to the briefness of his tenure, his nomination was never submitted to the United States Senate.[1]
Later career
In 1829, voters from Berkeley County as well as from nearby Hampshire, Hardy and Morgan Counties voters elected Pendleton one of their representatives to the
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Death
Pendleton died on April 3, 1863, in Berkeley County, Virginia.[10] He was interred in Norbourne Parish Cemetery in Martinsburg.
Family
Pendleton was descended from the First Families of Virginia, the eldest son of Colonel Philip Pendleton (1752–1829) who led the Berkeley County militia during the American Revolutionary War and helped found Martinsburg in 1778.[11] In 1813, Pendleton married Sarah Ann Boyd (1797–1868), Elisha Boyd's daughter. Their son Edmund B. Pendleton (1816–1880) would follow his father's path in law and politics into the Virginia judiciary, serving one term in the Virginia House of Delegates from 1844 to 1845, as well as twice voting against secession twice as one of Berkeley County's delegates at the Virginia Secession Convention of 1861.[12] Pendleton and his wife Sarah also had sons Philip Pendleton (1814–1899) and Dr. Elisha Boyd Pendleton (1820–1902), and a daughter, Elizabeth who married and had children.[13]
Edmund B. Pendleton
Berkeley County had not sent any representatives to the
References
- ^ a b c d e Philip Clayton Pendleton at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.
- ^ 1820 U.S. Federal Census for Martinsburg, Berkeley County, Virginia p.2 of 4 on ancestry.com
- ^ 1840 U.S. Federal Census for "Martinsbury", Berkeley County, Virginia p.7 of 16 on ancestry.com
- ^ 1860 U.S. Federal Census, slave schedule for Berkeley County, Virginia p.14 of 18 on ancestry.com
- ^ 1860 U.S. Federal Census 1860 U.S. Federal Census, slave schedule for Frostburg and Mt. Savage, Allegheny County, Maryland p.1 of 1 on ancestry.com; may be the same man who served with the U.S. Volunteers, beginning as a Major with the Paymasters Department on June 1, 1861 until being mustered out on August 13, 1864
- ^ Cynthia Miller Leonard (ed), The General Assembly of Virginia 1619-1978: A Bicentennial Register of Members (Richmond, 1978) pp. 239, 243, 247, 256
- ^ a b obit
- ^ Leonard p. 354
- ^ Doherty, p. 120
- ^ Littell's Living Age. Living Age Company Incorporated. 1863.
- ^ William Thomas Doherty, Berkeley County, U.S.A.: a bicentennial history (Parsons Printing Company 1972) p 40
- ^ Slaughter, Philip (1883). A Brief Sketch of the Life of William Green, LL.D., Jurist and Scholar, with Some Personal Reminiscences of Him: Also, a Historical Tract by Judge Green, and Some Curious Letters Upon the Origin of the Proverb, "Vox Populi, Vox Dei.". W.E. Jones.
- ^ nearly illegible Sons of the American Revolution Application number 82338 from May 20, 1957 (pages 251 and 252 of 635 on ancestry.com
- ^ "Edmund Pendleton" (PDF).