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Pendleton, John S

congressman, was born in Virginia. He was a representative in congress from Virginia from 1845 to 1847, and for a second term, ending in 1849. In 1851 he was appointed minister resident to the Argentine confederation. He died Nov. 19, 1868, in Culpeper county, Va. PENDLETON, LOUIS [BEAURE- GARD], author, was born in 1861, in Georgia. He is a novelist of Philadelphia; and the author of Bewitched, and Other Stories; In the Wire Grass, a novel of Southern Georgia; King Tom and the Runaways, a juvenile tale; The Wedding Garment, a Tale of the Life to Come; The Sons of Ham; Corona of the Nantahalas; and In the Okefenokee, a juvenile tale.

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