Pendleton was a delegate to every Democratic State convention from 1876 to 1910 . 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 1887-1889 . Between 1883 and 1889 , while a member of the state legislature , he held a number of positions within the state 's Democratic Party , including chairman pro tem of both the antiprohibition state convention of May 1887 and the state convention in 1888 . The 1890 Democratic state convention , cognizant of Pendleton 's Granger past , nominated him as gubernatorial candidate James S. Hogg 's running mate on a platform designed to appeal to the state 's agrarian voters during this period of farmer activism . Following Hogg 's victory Pendleton served as Lieutenant Governor of Texas from 1891 through 1893 under Governor James S. Hogg . In 1892 he successfully sought election to Congress from the state 's Seventh District , which included Bell , Falls , McLennan , Freestone , Limestone , Milam , Brazos , and Robertson counties . He served two terms in Washington and was a delegate to the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in 1896
Democratic National Convention
1896 Democratic National Convention
George C. Pendleton