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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.
22 giu 2024 · 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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Biografia. Fu il ventiseiesimo segretario alla Guerra degli Stati Uniti, durante la presidenza di Abraham Lincoln, il 16º presidente degli Stati Uniti d'America. Nato nello stato della Pennsylvania, i suoi genitori furono Charles Cameron e Marth Pfoutz.
11 giu 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.
“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.
CAMERON, Simon Uomo politico americano, nato l'8 marzo 1799 a Denegal, morto a New York il 26 giugno 1889. Fu dapprima giornalista nella natia Pennsylvania e a Washington, poi banchiere e uomo d'affari di larga influenza politica messa a servizio del Van Buren e del Buchanan.
