Edmund Pendleton was 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 Delegates. Pendleton attended the First Continental Congress as one of Virginia's delegates alongside George Washington and Patrick Henry, signed the Continental Association, and led the conventions both wherein Virginia declared independence (1776) and adopted the United States Constitution (1788).
An 1872 engraving of Pendleton by H.B. Hall
Washington, Henry & Pendleton going to the First Congress, lithograph, Henry Bryan Hall
Sent to Virginia Delegation to the Continental Congress and Richard Henry Lee to move for Independence Lee Resolution June 7, 1776.
Pendleton marker off Richmond Highway
The House of Burgesses was the elected representative element of the Virginia General Assembly, the legislative body of the Colony of Virginia.
Patrick Henry in the Virginia House of Burgesses by Peter F. Rothermel
Image: House of Burgesses in the Capitol Williamsburg James City County Virginia by Frances Benjamin Johnston
Second Capitol at Williamsburg (viewed from Duke of Gloucester Street)
