Simon Cameron
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American politician
Secretary of War of the United States
United States Cabinet member
United States senator
businessperson
human
journalist
member of the United States House of Representatives
Simon Cameron was a 19th-century American politician and influential Republican power broker who served as Abraham Lincoln’s first Secretary of War and later as a long-time U.S. senator from Pennsylvania.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Simon Cameron canonical | 4 |
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
American politician
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Secretary of War of the United States ⓘ United States Cabinet member ⓘ United States senator ⓘ businessperson ⓘ human ⓘ journalist ⓘ member of the United States House of Representatives ⓘ |
| burialPlace | Harrisburg Cemetery ⓘ |
| child | J. Donald Cameron ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | United States of America ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1799-03-08 ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | 1889-06-26 ⓘ |
| employer |
United States government
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surface form:
United States federal government
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| endTimeOfPosition United States Secretary of War | 1862-01 ⓘ |
| endTimeOfPosition United States senator (second tenure) | 1877 ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Scottish American ⓘ |
| familyName | Cameron ⓘ |
| givenName | Simon ⓘ |
| memberOfPoliticalParty |
Democratic Party
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Republican Party ⓘ |
| name | Simon Cameron self-link ⓘ |
| nominatedBy | Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| notableFor |
Republican Party power brokering in Pennsylvania
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political patronage system in Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| notableWork | organization of the Union war effort at the start of the American Civil War ⓘ |
| occupation |
businessperson
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journalist ⓘ politician ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth |
Lancaster County, Pennsylvania
NERFINISHED
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Myerstown, Pennsylvania ⓘ
surface form:
Maytown, Pennsylvania
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| placeOfDeath |
Dauphin County, Pennsylvania
NERFINISHED
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Near Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
Adjutant General of Pennsylvania militia
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surface form:
Pennsylvania state adjutant general
United States Minister to Russia ⓘ Secretary of War ⓘ
surface form:
United States Secretary of War
United States representative ⓘ United States senator ⓘ chair of the Republican National Committee ⓘ chair of the Senate Committee on Naval Affairs ⓘ chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee ⓘ |
| precededInOfficeAsSecretaryOfWar | Joseph Holt ⓘ |
| replacedInOfficeAsSecretaryOfWar | Edwin M. Stanton ⓘ |
| representedInHouse | Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| representedInSenate | Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| residence | Harrisburg, Pennsylvania ⓘ |
| servedInCabinetOf | Abraham Lincoln ⓘ |
| spouse | Margaret Brua ⓘ |
| startTimeOfPosition United States Secretary of War | 1861-03 ⓘ |
| startTimeOfPosition United States senator (second tenure) | 1867 ⓘ |
| workedAs |
banker
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newspaper editor ⓘ printer’s apprentice ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Simon Cameron Description of subject: Simon Cameron was a 19th-century American politician and influential Republican power broker who served as Abraham Lincoln’s first Secretary of War and later as a long-time U.S. senator from Pennsylvania.
Referenced by (4)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.