George Hunt Pendleton (July 19 1825 – November 24 1889) was a Representative and a Senator from Ohio. Nicknamed Gentleman George for his demeanor he was the Democratic nominee for Vice President of the United States during the Civil War in 1864 running as a peace Democrat with war Democrat George B. McClellan; they lost to Abraham Lincoln and Andrew Johnson. He is best known as the principal author of the Pendleton Civil Service Reform Act of 1883.
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