Edmund Pendleton

Edmund Pendleton () adalah seorang pengusaha, politikus, pengacara dan hakim Virginia, serta Bapak Pendiri Amerika Serikat. Ia menjabat dalam legislatur Virginia sebelum dan saat Perang Revolusioner Amerika, di mana ia memegang jabatan sebagai Ketua. Pendleton menghadiri Kongres Kontinental Pertama dan salah satu delegasi Virginia bersama dengan George Washington dan Patrick Henry, yang menandatangani Continental Association, dan memimpin konvensi-konvensi di mana Virginia mendeklarasikan kemerdekaan (1776) dan mengadopsi Konstitusi AS (1788).

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 Autobiography, Edmund Pendleton, completed on July 20, 1793, it was first published in the Richmond Enquirer, April 11, 1828
 Leftwich, George J. Colonel George Strother Gaines and Other Pioneers in Mississippi Territory. Publications of the Mississippi Historical Society, v. 1. Jackson, Miss: Mississippi Historical Society, 1916. googlebooks.com Accessed October 20, 2007
 Page, Richard Channing Moore. Genealogy of the Page Family in Virginia. Also a Condensed Account of the Nelson, Walker, Pendleton and Randolph Families, with References to the Byrd, Carter, Cary, Duke, Gilmer, Harrison, Rives, Thornton, Wellford, Washington, and Other Distinguished Families in Virginia. New York: Jenkins & Thomas, printers, 1883. googlebooks.com Accessed October 20, 2007
 Understanding the American Revolution: issues and actors, Jack P. Greene, University of Virginia Press, 1995

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 David J. Mays Edmund Pendleton, 1721–1803: A Biography; 1952, Harvard University Press; 1984 reprint: Library of Virginia, ; (paperback: ).
 David J. Mays (editor); The Letters and Papers of Edmund Pendleton (2 volumes);1967, Charlottesville, Virginia, The University Press of Virginia.
 The Life and Times of Edmund Pendleton, Robert Leroy Hilldrup, 1939, University of North Carolina Press

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 Pendleton's Congressional Biography

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