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Simon Cameron (March 8, 1799 – June 26, 1889) was an American politician who served as United States Secretary of War for Abraham Lincoln at the start of the American Civil War. Cameron made his fortune in railways, canals and banking, founding the Bank of Middletown.[1] He then turned to a life of politics. He became a U.S. senator in 1845 for the state of Pennsylvania, succeeding James ...
Simon Cameron ( Maytown, Pennsylvania, 1799. március 8. – Maytown, Pennsylvania, 1889. június 26.) amerikai vállalkozó, újságíró, vasúti befektető, amerikai államférfi, hadügyminiszter, pétervári nagykövet és szenátor volt. Cameron vagyonát a vasúttal, a csatornákon és a bankszektorban szerezte. A Bank of Middletown ...
Simon Cameron was one of many Pennsylvanians - fellow bosses and United States Senators Matthew Quay and Boies Penrose among them - who ensured that Pennsylvania remained a Republican-controlled state in the nation from the Civil War until the 1930s. Brokering deals and distributing patronage among the state's many geographical and economic regions, he enjoyed, if that is the word, a national ...
Paul Kahan tells how Simon Cameron became the Secretary of War under Lincoln, the incredible challenges he faced and how he addressed them.
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Cabinet and Vice Presidents: Simon Cameron (1799-1889) “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. A former Democrat with such widespread business interests in newspapers, banking and ...
Simon Cameron (above) was Abraham Lincoln’s secretary of war when hostilities began in 1861. Cameron, however, was a somewhat corrupt and poor administrator; President Lincoln sent him to Russia to serve as minister in 1862. Cameron’s replacement did not necessarily engender positive feelings in everyone he met either, but he performed his ...
Amiable Scoundrel: Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War. Lincoln: Potomac Press, 2016. xxiv + 367 pages. Hardcover, $55.50. Paul Kahan, a lecturer at Ohlone College, provides more than a biography of Simon Cameron, Pennsylvania political boss and Lincoln's first Secretary of War. His work also
