Charles Edmund Pendleton was born in Ossian, Iowa in 1890. The family moved to Storm Lake where Charles graduated from Storm Lake High School. He attended Commercial College of Buena Vista and in 1917 he took a position as a clerk for the War Department in Washington, D.C. During his tenure in Washington he attended law school. In 1920 he returned to Iowa to begin his career as a lawyer in Sioux Rapids. He served for 2 years as the mayor of Sioux Rapids before being elected county attorney of Buena Vista County in 1924. That same year he moved back to Storm Lake where he practiced law until shorly before his death in 1983.
From the description of Charles Edmund Pendleton papers, 1895-1976. (Iowa Sate Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 58392992
