Pendleton County Named, 1798
Falmouth, Pendleton County, Kentucky
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County Named, 1798. For Edmund Pendleton, 1721-1803. A patriot statesman. Virginian. Member House of Burgesses 1752-1774. In the First Continental Congress. Governor Colonial Virginia 1774-1776. President Virginia Constitutional Convention, 1776, and President of Virginia State Convention that ratified Federal Constitution, 1788. Chief, State Court of Appeals, 1779-1803. County from Bracken and Campbell.
Erected by Kentucky Historical Society
The Story
Pendleton County, established in 1798 from parts of Bracken and Campbell counties, honors the Virginia patriot-statesman Edmund Pendleton (1721–1803). A longtime member of the House of Burgesses, he served in the First Continental Congress, presided over Virginia's 1776 constitutional convention, and led the 1788 state convention that ratified the Federal Constitution. He capped his career as chief judge of Virginia's Court of Appeals until his death.
Why it matters
Naming a Kentucky county for Pendleton carried the constitutional founding of the republic westward, honoring one of Virginia's steadiest architects of self-government.
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