J. Donald Cameron
American politician (1833-1918) · United States · On the map · Politicians · Died at 85
James Donald Cameron was an American banker, businessman and Republican politician who served as Secretary of War in the cabinet of President Ulysses S. Grant from 1876 to 1877 and represented Pennsylvania in the United States Senate from 1877 to 1897.
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J. Donald Cameron as Secretary of War (Huntington 1877)
1903 artistic depiction of the Battle of the Little Big Horn
General of the Army Sherman warned Cameron that Southern states threatened to secede from the Union if Democratic candidate Tilden was not elected president.
Will he cast his sword into the balance?An 1882 Puck cartoon depicts Cameron and fellow Pennsylvania senator John I. Mitchell on the Republican Pennsylvania Scale. Cameron, sitting on a platform marked "bossism", attempts to weigh himself down with weights marked "threats", "tricks" and "bluster" while Mitchell, dressed as a Roman, stands at the opposite end as an "Independent Republican". President Chester A. Arthur, too dressed as a Roman, holds a sword marked "patronage" which Cameron asks for to even out the balance.
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Cameron succeeded his father, Simon Cameron, in both offices and as boss of the powerful Pennsylvania Republican political machine.
