Nathaniel Pendleton

This article is about the lawyer and judge. For the wrestler, see Nat Pendleton.

Nathaniel Pendleton
Born	October 27, 1756 New Kent County, Virginia
Died	October 20, 1821 (aged 64) Hyde Park, Dutchess County, New York
Resting place	St. James Episcopal Churchyard, Hyde Park, New York
Occupation(s)	Lawyer and judge

Nathaniel Pendleton (October 27, 1756 – October 20, 1821) was a lawyer and judge in the United States at the time of the American Revolutionary War and afterward.

Born in New Kent County, Virginia, Pendleton, whose uncle was Edmund Pendleton, read law to become a lawyer. He was a soldier in the Continental Army during the American Revolution, and later entered private practice in Savannah, Georgia until 1789. He was also the Attorney General of Georgia in 1785-1786. Pendleton was elected to both the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, and the Confederation Congress in 1789, but attended neither.

He was nominated by President George Washington on September 24, 1789, to a new seat created by 1 Stat. 73, as Judge for the United States District Court for the District of Georgia. Pendleton was confirmed by the United States Senate on September 26, 1789, and received his commission that day. He resigned on September 1, 1796, and returned to private practice in Dutchess County, New York. At some point thereafter, he became a county judge for Dutchess County, and held that position until his death in Hyde Park, New York. In 1804, he served as a "second" to Alexander Hamilton in Hamilton’s duel with Aaron Burr.

Congressman Nathanael Greene Pendleton was Pendleton's son.

External links

• Nathaniel Pendleton at the Biographical Directory of Federal Judges, a publication of the Federal Judicial Center.

• Guide to the Nathaniel Pendleton Papers, 1767-1867