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Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803; a biography.

Title: Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803; a biography.
Author: Mays, David John, 1896-1971
Publication: Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1952.

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2v. illus.,ports,maps.; 25cm.

Summary

Edmund Pendleton was a Virginia planter, politician, lawyer and judge. He served in the Virginia legislature before and during the American Revolutionary War, rising to the postion of Speaker. Pendleton attended the First Continental Congress as one of Virginia's delegates alongside George Washington and Patrick Henry, and led the conventions both wherein Virginia declared indepence (1776) and adopted the United States Constitution (1788). Pendleton was a moderate who initially hoped for reconciliation, rather than revolt. With Thomas Jefferson and George Wythe, Pendleton revised Virginia's legal code after the break with Britain.

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Bibliography: v.2, p.[407]-429.

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Contents

Vol. 1 -- Boyhood -- Apprenticeship -- Deputy attorney of our lord the king -- The gentlemen justices of caroline -- Disaster on the frontier -- The weed called "sweetscented" -- Senior burgess from caroline -- The decline of the plantation system -- The stamp act -- The robinson affair -- "A lucky operation of paper money" -- The general court -- Growing resistance to parliament -- Three horsemen leave for philadelphia -- The first congress -- The association -- Vol. 2 -- Liberty or death -- The second congress -- A civilian makes war -- The shirtmen take norfolk -- The struggle to create an army -- The british flag comes down -- The jefferson revolution begins -- Invalided -- First judge of the high court of chancery -- The backwash of war -- The case of the prisoners -- Interlude -- The federalists plan their battle -- The fight for ratification -- The "scuffle" for kentucky votes -- The battle over the judiciary -- "The remonstrance" and the new court -- An old rivalry renewed -- The fight against centralized power -- The danger not over -- The judge's last case

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716394
SCSB-10118047

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Harvard Library