Cameron, Simon

(1799-1889), politician, worked at the printer’s trade in his boyhood and youth, In 1822 he edited 2 newspaper in Harris burg. He soon became interested and acquired wealth in banking and railroad construction—was for atime Ad‘utant-General of Pennsylvania. He was U.S. Senator from Pennsylvania 1845-1849, acting with the Democrats, Upon the repeal of the Mi ouri Compromise in 1854 he broke with that party and joined the Republican party upon its organization, by which he was elected to the U. S. Senate in 1857. He was appointed by President Lincoln his first Secretary of War, resigned in 1862 and was appointed Minister to Ru ia, He was again U. S. Senator 1867-1877. “ Camiling,”’ a literary pseudonym of Alexander Hamilton. In 1795 there were published at New York a series of papers called a ‘‘ Defense of the Treaty,’’ Jay’s treaty of the previous year with Great Britain. These papers were nearly all signed ‘‘ Camillus,” but were written by Hamilton.