President-Elect Lincoln selects Senator Simon Cameron as his Secretary of War

Abraham Lincoln, February 9, 1861, detail

03/01/1861

Source Citation

Harold Holzer, Lincoln President-Elect: Abraham Lincoln and the Great Secession Winter 1860-1861 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008), 431-432.

Record Data

Date Certainty

Exact

Type

Lawmaking/Litigating

People

Cameron, Simon

Simon Cameron, detail

Lincoln, Abraham

Abraham Lincoln, November 8, 1863, detail

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