Simon Cameron

✶August 8, 1799

†June 26, 1889

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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.

American businessman and politician (1799–1889)

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