Pat Schroeder
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About the Edmund Pendleton
Edmund Pendletonwas an American planter, politician, lawyer, and judge. He served in the Virginia legislature before and during the American Revolutionary War, becoming the first speaker of the Virginia House of Delegatesand adopted the United States Constitution (1788).
Unlike his sometime political rival Henry, Pendleton was a moderate who initially hoped for reconciliation rather than revolt. With Thomas Jefferson and George Wythe, Pendleton revised Virginia’s legal code after the break with Britain. To contemporaries, Pendleton may have distinguished himself most as a judge, particularly in the appellate roles in which he spent his final 25 years, including leadership of what is now known as the Supreme Court of Virginia.
On hearing of his death, Congress agreed to wear badges of mourning for 30 days and expressed “their regret that another star is fallen from the splendid constellation of virtue and talents which guided the people of the United States, in their struggle for independence”.