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History and Government—Congressional Biographies—PennsylvaniaSimon CAMERON
(1799-1889)
Senate Years of Service:
1845-1849; 1857-1861; 1867-1877Party: Democrat; Republican;
RepublicanCAMERON, Simon, (father of
James Donald Cameron), a Senator from Pennsylvania; born in
Maytown, Lancaster County, Pa., March 8, 1799; apprenticed as a
printer; newspaper owner and editor; cashier of a bank, president
of two railroad companies, and adjutant general of Pennsylvania;
elected to the United States Senate to fill the vacancy caused by
the resignation of James Buchanan, and served from March 13, 1845,
to March 3, 1849; elected as a Republican to the United States
Senate and served from March 4, 1857, to March 4, 1861, when he
resigned, having been appointed Secretary of War; chairman,
Committee on Patents and the Patent Office (Twenty-ninth Congress),
Committee on Public Buildings (Twenty-ninth Congress), Committee on
District of Columbia (Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Congresses),
Committee on Printing (Thirtieth Congress); unsuccessful candidate
for the Republican presidential nomination in 1860; Secretary of
War in the Cabinet of President Abraham Lincoln 1861-1862; United
States Minister to Russia 1862; was again elected as a Republican
to the United States Senate in 1867; reelected in 1873, and served
from March 4, 1867, until his resignation, effective March 12,
1877; chairman, Committee on Agriculture (Fortieth and Forty-first
Congresses), Committee on Foreign Relations (Forty-second through
Forty-fifth Congresses), Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds
(Forty-second Congress); retired from active business pursuits and
traveled extensively in Europe and the West Indies; died near
Maytown, Lancaster County, Pa., June 26, 1889; interment in
Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, Pa.
Bibliography
American National Biography; Dictionary of American
Biography; Bradley, Erwin. Simon Cameron, Lincoln’s
Secretary of War: A Political Biography. Philadelphia:
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1966; Crippen, Lee. Simon
Cameron, Ante-bellum Years. 1942. Reprint. New York: Da Capo
Press, 1972.
Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present
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