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Simon Cameron (March 8, 1799 – June 26, 1889) was an American businessman and politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate and served as United States Secretary of War under President Abraham Lincoln at the start of the American Civil War.
Há 4 dias · Simon Cameron was a U.S. senator, secretary of war during the American Civil War, and a political boss of Pennsylvania. His son James Donald Cameron (1833–1918) succeeded him in the Senate and as a political power in his state.
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In his pursuit of a cabinet position Cameron aligned himself with the David Davis-Leonard Swett group of Mr. Lincoln’s friends – who were allied to William H. Seward and Thurlow Weed. The Seward faction strongly backed Cameron, who had been a silent partner in Seward’s nomination fight.
“The Great Winnebago Chief” and “Czar of Pennsylvania,” Simon Cameron was the Pennsylvania Republican leader who served in the Senate (1845-49, 1857-61, 1867-77), and replaced James Buchanan.
11 de jun. de 2018 · The American politician Simon Cameron (1799-1889) is best known for the efficient political machine he developed in Pennsylvania and for the way he used it to gain public office and financial rewards for himself and his friends.
Simon Cameron was born in 1799 in Maytown, Pennsylvania. After serving as a printer’s apprentice, he began work as an editor of a local newspaper in 1821. When that newspaper folded, he ran a second newspaper before moving to Washington, D.C., where he worked at a printing firm.
Ambitious and materialistic, Simon Cameron set his sights higher than state politics and won a seat in the United States Senate as a Democrat in 1844. Although not re-elected at the end of his term, Cameron joined the new Republican Party and was returned to the Senate in 1857.
