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Title	George Pendleton Letter Regarding Civil Service Reform
Subject	Presidents and Politics Civil service reform Pendleton, George H. (George Hunt), 1825-1889 Political corruption
Place	Cincinnati (Ohio) Hamilton County (Ohio)
Description	Senator George H. Pendleton wrote this letter on November 12, 1881 regarding his views on federal civil service reform. Pendleton wrote that he was "in favor of the extirpation, root and branch, of the spoils system." Congress later passed the Pendleton Act of 1883, making merit the basis for hiring in civil service positions. This letter is six pages and measures 6" x 9.5" (15.24 x 24.13 cm). George Hunt Pendleton (1825-1889) was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. He attended Heidelberg University in Germany, studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1847. He was elected to the Ohio Senate in 1854 and the U.S. Congress in 1857, serving until 1865. He was an unsuccessful vice-presidential candidate in 1864 running with General George McClellan (they were defeated by Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson), a U.S. senator from 1879 to 1885, and chairman of the Democratic Conference from 1881 until 1885. In 1885, he was appointed by President Grover Cleveland as ambassador to Germany; he served in that post until his death. He is best known for the Pendleton Civil Service Act, which was meant to end political corruption among presidential appointees, and laid the foundation for the modern civil and foreign service examinations.
Creator	Pendleton, George H. (George Hunt), 1825-1889
Date of Original	November 12, 1881
Source	Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts); VFM 1332
Format	manuscripts
Submitting Institution	Ohio Historical Society
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Type	Text
Date created	2010-10-19

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Full Text	3. and 3 rd [underlined and superscripted] a public opinion which will sustain the legislation and the President I am not unaware that the last factor is the most important of all _ but the two others are most imporatnt [crossed out] efficient [written above] in creating and invigorating that public opinion _ If we can tide over the dangers of distributing the patronage of the federal government during the first two years of our next Democratic adminis tration, I shall hope to see the Democratic party in power for many years_ but as I have so many fears that we can not tide over those dangers under the spoils system I propose to try to remove them under
Date created	2009-01-09

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