Collection The White House Social Secretary
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Thomas F. Pendel, A White House Doorman for Thirty-Six Years
Thomas F. Pendel, A White House Doorman for Thirty-Six Years
Thomas F. Pendel was a White House doorman from the Abraham Lincoln administration to the turn of the 20th century. By the time Chester A. Arthur succeeded James A. Garfield in September 1881, Pendel had experienced the assassinations of both Lincoln and Garfield.
This portrait of Thomas F. Pendel appeared in his 1902 memoir, Thirty-six Years in the White House
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