Editing Pendleton, South Carolina (section)

==Notable residents==
* [[Stephen Adams (politician)|Stephen Adams]] (1807–1857), born in the Pendleton District, [[United States congressman]] and [[United States Senator|senator]]<ref name="Marquis 1607-1896">{{cite book | title = Who Was Who in America, Historical Volume, 1607-1896 | publisher = Marquis Who's Who | location = Chicago | year = 1963}}</ref>
* [[Joe Ellis Brown]] (1933–2018), was an American schoolteacher and politician.
* [[Floride Calhoun]], wife of U.S. Senator and Vice President [[John C. Calhoun]], resided in the house known as "Mi Casa"
* [[Warren R. Davis]] (1793 – 1835), born Columbia, South Carolina. He studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1814, practicing in Pendleton. Davis was elected as a Jacksonian to the 20th United States Congress through 24th Congresses.
* [[Barnard Elliott Bee, Jr.]], born in Charleston, SC, 1824. He graduated West Point 1845, and as a Brigadier General, commanded the 3rd Brigade, Army of the Shenandoah, July 21, 1861, at Manassas, Va. He gave Gen. [[Thomas Jonathan Jackson]] the name "Stonewall."
*[[Juanita Goggins]], was the first African-American woman elected to the South Carolina legislature.
* [[Jane Edna Hunter]], an African-American social worker. In 1911 she established the Working Girls Association in Cleveland, Ohio, which later became the Phillis Wheatley Association of Cleveland.
* [[Bryce McGowens]] is an American professional basketball player for the [[Charlotte Hornets]] of the National Basketball Association (NBA).
* [[Samuel Augustus Maverick]], firebrand Texas rancher and politician from whom the word "maverick" originated, was born in Pendleton.
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* [[Mazÿck Porcher Ravenel]], pathologist and medical doctor who worked towards the elimination of tuberculosis as a public health problem. -->
* [[Thomas Jefferson Rusk]], early political and military leader of the [[Republic of Texas]], serving as its first Secretary of War as well as a general at the Battle of San Jacinto.
* [[John Allen Wakefield]], political and military leader, historian, took part in the [[Black Hawk War]] and [[Bleeding Kansas]]
* [[Margaret Sellers Walker]] (1935–2020), Michigan state official, born in Pendleton