Nathaniel Pendleton was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Georgia.
12 Facts About Nathaniel Pendleton
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Nathaniel Pendleton served in the Continental Army starting in 1775, during the American Revolutionary War, serving as an aide-de-camp to General Nathanael Greene in the campaigns in the southern states.
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Nathaniel Pendleton was in private practice in Savannah, Georgia until 1789.
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Nathaniel Pendleton was Attorney General of Georgia from 1785 to 1786.
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Nathaniel Pendleton was elected as a delegate to the Constitutional Convention of 1787 which drafted the United States Constitution, but did not attend.
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Nathaniel Pendleton was elected to the Congress of the Confederation in 1789, but did not attend.
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Nathaniel Pendleton was a Judge of the Dutchess County Court until 1821.
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On July 11,1804, Nathaniel Pendleton served as a second to Alexander Hamilton in Hamilton's fatal duel with Aaron Burr.
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Nathaniel Pendleton died on October 20,1821, in Hyde Park, New York.
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Nathaniel Pendleton was interred in St James' Churchyard in Hyde Park.
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Nathaniel Pendleton was a nephew of Edmund Nathaniel Pendleton, the 1st Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia, and cousin of John Penn, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation from North Carolina.
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Nathaniel Pendleton was the father of Nathanael G Pendleton, a United States representative from Ohio.