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Pendleton Act

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Pendleton Act

In US history, a civil service reform bill in 1883 sponsored by senator George Pendleton (1825-1889) of Ohio that was designed to curb the power of patronage exercised by new administrations over a swelling federal bureaucracy. Initially about 10% of civil service appointments were made subject to competitive examinations administered by an independent Civil Service Commission.
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