John Pendleton and His Friendship with Urquiza
The able and distinguished envoy, whose penetrating observations were destined to cover two-and-a-half dramatic years in Argentine history, was well equipped at forty-nine years of age with human qualities and the worldly experience to represent his country abroad with success. He was a leading member of the Whig party in Virginia. Descended from an old and long-prominent family of his state, Pendleton has served several terms in the Virginia House of Delegates; had been charge d'affaires in Chile; and had been elected twice to the Federal Congress.4 He possessed an attractive person-