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| | Handbook of Texas Online: PENDLETON, GEORGE CASSETY |
 | | George Cassety Pendleton, state representative, lieutenant governor, and congressman, was born to Ned E. and Sarah (Smart) Pendleton in Warren County, Tennessee, on April 23, 1845. |
 | | During 1881 and 1882 Pendleton lived in Bell County, first in Old Howard, and later, after the Santa Fe Railroad bypassed that village, at Pendleton, where he was involved in various business pursuits for a short time. |
 | | Pendleton was selected as state representative of the Twenty-fourth District, which included Bell County, and retained office for the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth legislatures; he served as speaker of the House in 1886. |
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