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Pennsylvania politician and secretary of war. Maytown, Pennsylvania, native. Orphaned in 1808. Apprentice printer under Andrew Kennedy. Journeyman in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and Washington, Pennsylvania. Editor of the Bucks County Messenger in 1821. Editor of the Republican in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in 1824. State printer of Pennsylvania from 1825 to 1827. Adjutant general of Pennyslvania in 1826. Member of the Senate of the United States from 1845 to 1849 and 1859 to 1861. Secretary of War, appointed by President Abraham Lincoln, from March 1861 to January 1862. Resigned as Secretary of War, due to corruption allegations. Minister to Russia from January 1862 to November 1862. Returned to Pennsylvania.

Details

Sex: Male
Race: White

Bibliography

"Simon Cameron is Dead," The Nashville Tennessean (Nashville, Tenn.), June 27, 1889, p. 4. "Simon Cameron's Death," The New York Times (New York, N.Y.), June 27, 1889, p. 1. Paul Kahan, * Amiable Scoundrel: Simon Cameron, Lincoln's Scandalous Secretary of War* (Washington D.C.: Potomac Books, 2016).

Citation

Cameron, Simon. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32210612 (November 12, 2026).

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Correspondence
Simon Cameron to Beriah Magoffin
1861-04-15
Telegram
Simon Cameron to Beriah Magoffin
1861-11-19

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