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See also:CAMERON, See also:SIMON (1799-1889) , See also:American politician, was See also:born in See also:Lancaster See also:county, See also:Pennsylvania, on the 8th of See also:March 1799. See also:Left an See also:orphan at the See also:age of nine, he See also:early entered journalism, and, in banking and railway enterprises, accumulated a considerable See also:fortune. He became influential in Pennsylvania politics, and in 1845–1849 served in the See also:United States See also:Senate, being elected by a See also:combination of Democratic, Whig and " American " votes to succeed See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James See also:Buchanan. In 1854, having failed to secure the nomination for senator from the "Know-Nothing" Party, which he had recently joined, he became a See also:leader of the " See also:People's Party," as the Republican
Party was at first called in Pennsylvania. In 1857 he was elected to the United States Senate as a Republican, despite a Democratic See also:majority in the See also:state legislature, a fact that gave rise to charges of See also:bribery. His prominence as a See also:candidate first for the presidential and then for the See also:vice-presidential nomination in the Republican See also:national See also:convention of 186o led to his being selected by See also:President See also:Lincoln as secretary of See also:war. His See also:administration of this See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office at a See also:critical See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time was marked by his accustomed See also:energy, but unfortunately also by partiality in the letting of See also:government contracts, which brought about his resignation at Lincoln's See also:request in See also:January 1862 and his subsequent censure by the See also:House of Representatives. Lincoln sent him as See also:minister to See also:Russia, but he returned in See also:November 1862. He again served in the Senate (after 1872, being chairman of the See also:committee on See also:foreign relations) from 1867 until 1877, when he resigned to make See also:room for his son, whose See also:election he dictated. Cameron was one of the ablest See also:political organizers the United States has ever known, and his See also:long undisputed See also:control of Pennsylvania politics was one of the most striking examples of " See also:boss See also:rule " in American See also:history. The See also:definition of an honest politician as " one who when he is bought will stay bought " has been attributed to him. He died on the 26th of See also:June 1889.
His son JAMES DONALD CAMERON (1833– ) was born at See also:Middletown, Pennsylvania, on the 14th of May 1833, graduated at See also:Princeton in 1852, became actively interested in his See also:father's banking and railway enterprises, and from 1863 to 1874 was president of the See also:Northern Central railway. Trained in the political school of his father, he See also:developed into an astute politician. From June 1876 to March 1877 he was secretary of war in President See also:- GRANT (from A.-Fr. graunter, O. Fr. greanter for creanter, popular Lat. creantare, for credentare, to entrust, Lat. credere, to believe, trust)
- GRANT, ANNE (1755-1838)
- GRANT, CHARLES (1746-1823)
- GRANT, GEORGE MONRO (1835–1902)
- GRANT, JAMES (1822–1887)
- GRANT, JAMES AUGUSTUS (1827–1892)
- GRANT, ROBERT (1814-1892)
- GRANT, SIR ALEXANDER
- GRANT, SIR FRANCIS (1803-1878)
- GRANT, SIR JAMES HOPE (1808–1895)
- GRANT, SIR PATRICK (1804-1895)
- GRANT, U
- GRANT, ULYSSES SIMPSON (1822-1885)
Grant's See also:cabinet. In the Republican national convention of 1876 he took an influential See also:part in preventing the nomination of James G. See also:Blaine, and later was one of those who directed the policy of the Republicans in the struggle for the See also:presidency between See also:Tilden and See also:Hayes. From 1877 until 1897 he was a member of the United States Senate, having been elected originally to succeed his father, who resigned in See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order to create the vacancy. He was chairman of the Republican national committee during the See also:campaign of 1880.
End of Article: CAMERON, SIMON (1799-1889)
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