List of United States Political Families (P) - The Pendletons, Penns, Gaines and Taylors

The Pendletons, Penns, Gaines and Taylors

• Edmund Pendleton (1721–1803), Justice of the Peace in Virginia Colony 1751, member of the Virginia Colony House of Burgesses 1752-1774, member of the Virginia Colony Committee of Correspondence 1773, Delegate to the Continental Congress from Virginia 1774-1775, President of the Virginia Committee of Safety 1775, President of the Virginia Constitutional Convention 1775 1776, Virginia House of Delegates 1776-1777, Judge of the General Court of Chancery in Virginia 1777, Presiding Judge of the Court of Appeals in Virginia 1779. Uncle of John Penn, John Taylor, and Nathaniel Pendleton.
  • John Penn (1741–1788), Delegate to the Continental Congress from North Carolina 1775-1780, Receiver of Taxes of North Carolina 1784. Nephew of Edmund Pendleton.
  • John Taylor (1753–1824), Virginia House Delegate 1779-1781 1783-1785 1796-1800, U.S. Senator from Virginia 1792-1794 1803 1822-1824. Nephew of Edmund Pendleton.
  • Nathaniel Pendleton (1756–1821), District Court Judge in Georgia, Federal Judge in Georgia 1789-1796, Delegate to the Continental Congress from Georgia 1789. Nephew of Edmund Pendleton.
    • Henry Gaines Johnson (1787–1857), South Carolina State Senator 1840-1844. Great-grandnephew of Edmund Pendleton.
  • Nathaniel Pendleton, nephew of Edmund Pendleton, Attorney General of Georgia in 1785-1786, Judge for the U.S. District of Georgia 1789-1796, second in the Alexander Hamilton - Aaron Burr duel. Father of Nathanael G.
    • Nathanael G. Pendleton (1793–1861), Ohio State Senator 1825-1829, U.S. Representative from Ohio 1841-1843. Father of George H. Pendleton.
      • George H. Pendleton (1825–1889), Ohio State Senator 1854-1856, candidate for U.S. Representative from Ohio 1854, U.S. Representative from Ohio 1857-1869, candidate for Vice President of the United States 1864, candidate for Governor of Ohio 1869, U.S. Senator from Ohio 1879-1885, U.S. Ambassador to Germany 1885-1889. Son of Nathanael Pendleton. (George H. Pendleton was also son-in-law of U.S. District Attorney Francis Scott Key)
  • James Gaines (1743-c. 1830), North Carolina State Representative, Delegate to the Hillsborough convention of 1788, nephew of Edmund Pendelton. Father of George Gaines
    • George Strother Gaines, Alabama state senator (1825–1827), brother of Maj. Gen. Edmund Pendleton Gaines