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About Edmund Pendleton
Edmund Pendleton was an American planter, politician, lawyer, and judge. He served in the Virginia legislature before and during the American Revolutionary War, becoming the first speaker of the Virginia House of Delegates. Pendleton attended the First Continental Congress as one of Virginia's delegates alongside George Washington and Patrick Henry, signed the Continental Association, and led the conventions both wherein Virginia declared independence (1776) and adopted the United States Constitution (1788).
Everything about Edmund Pendleton →- Occupation
- lawyer, judge
- Position held
- Governor of Virginia, member of the Virginia House of Delegates
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- September 9, 1721
- Died
- October 23, 1803