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Simon Cameron

Born: 8-Mar-1799
Birthplace: Maytown, PA
Died: 26-Jun-1889
Location of death: Maytown, PA
Cause of death: unspecified
Remains: Buried, Harrisburg Cemetery, Harrisburg, PA

Gender: Male
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Politician
Party Affiliation: See Note [1]

Nationality: United States
Executive summary: The Czar of Pennsylvania


[1] First a Whig, then a Democrat during his first term as Senator, and finally a Republican after 1860.

Father: Charles Cameron
Mother: Martha Pfoutz
Wife: Margaret Brua (five children)
Son:
J. Donald Cameron (US Senator)
Daughter: Virginia Rolette Cameron (m. Wayne MacVeagh)

    US Senator, Pennsylvania (1867-77)
    US Ambassador to Russia (1862)
    US Secretary of War (1861-62)
    US Senator, Pennsylvania (1857-61)
    US Senator, Pennsylvania (1845-49)
    Bank of Middletown Founder (1832)
    Northern Central Railroad Founder
    Pennsylvania State Official Adjutant General (1826)
    Harrisburg Republican (1824)
    Pennsylvania Intelligence Managing Partner (1821)
    Bucks County Messenger (Doylestown, PA) Editor (1821)
    Freemasonry
    Funeral: Abraham Lincoln (1865) Pall bearer


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