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Pendleton, George C

farmer, soldier, financier, state legislator, congressman, was born April 23, 1845, in Coffee county, Tenn.

He was a merchant; then a farmer and dealer in real estate.

He was in the confederate service as private in Fount's company, Burford's regiment, Parson's brigade, Texas cavalry. He was member of the eighteenth, ninea teenth, and twentieth Texas legislatures, and speaker of the twentieth, He was elected lieutenantgovernor in 1890; and was elected to the fifty-third and fifty-fourth congresses as a democrat. While in congress he served on several important committees.