# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/edmund-pendleton
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:06:06.315Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/edmund-pendleton"
name: "Edmund Pendleton"
slug: "edmund-pendleton"
description: "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)."
tagline: "American politician (1721-1803)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Edmund_Pendleton_1872_crop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Lawyers"
  slug: "lawyers"
profileType:
  name: "Lawyer"
  slug: "lawyer"
birthDate: "1721-09-09"
deathDate: "1803-10-23"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           47.61
  momentum:             0.671971706454465
  historical:           11.37678533333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    title: "Edmund Pendleton"
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    title: "Edmund Pendleton"
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    title: "Edmund Pendleton"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump