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About Simon Cameron
Simon Cameron was an American businessman and politician who was four times elected senator from Pennsylvania, and whose involvement in politics spanned over half a century. He served as United States secretary of war under President Abraham Lincoln at the start of the American Civil War.
Everything about Simon Cameron →- Occupation
- politician, diplomat, banker
- Position held
- United States Secretary of War, ambassador, United States senator, United States senator
- Citizenship
- United States
- Born
- August 8, 1799
- Died
- June 26, 1889