Talk:George H. Pendleton

Pendleton's reasons for sponsoring civil service reform

Can anyone find a citation documenting the reasons Pendleton pushed for civil service reform? The article says that it was attributed to his core racist beliefs, though I can't find a source directly stating this. Could this be attributed to left-wing academia covering up crucial facts? —LT^{(TALK PAGE | CONTRIBUTIONS)} Saturday, 19:30, November 12, 2021 (EST)

I found it in a Vox article. They cited a professor claiming that Democrats tried to reform the civil service because so many blacks were in it during Reconstruction, and said that Pendleton did it due to his racist beliefs. On second thought though, they did claim that Donald Trump and Chris Christie were trying to destroy the civil service system, and made it look like Pat Buchanan was a racist. So they obviously did have some left-wing bias in it. But anyway, here is what they said,

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But, Yellin continues, "Patronage greatly facilitated African-American citizens' claims to decent jobs, social mobility, and civil equality in circumstances that denied them other ways to express these claims." Indeed, even in the modern era the federal bureaucracy has a greater percentage of black employees as compared with the general population, something that has irked Pat Buchanan in recent years.

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It’s no coincidence that the civil service act eventually passed in 1883 bore the name of Sen. George Pendleton, who as a House member was a leading opponent of the 13th Amendment abolishing slavery. (The Radical Republican Thaddeus Stevens quipped during the 13th Amendment debate that Pendleton’s epitaph should read, "Here rests the ablest and most pertinacious defender of slavery and opponent of liberty."

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Here is a link to the article by the way just in case you would like to read it:[1] -Mr. Nationalist (talk) 20:52, November 12, 2021 (EST)

Thanks Mr. Nationalist! —LT^{(TALK PAGE | CONTRIBUTIONS)} Saturday, 20:58, November 12, 2021 (EST)