[1] First a Whig, then a Democrat during his first term as Senator, and finally a Republican after 1860. Father: Charles Cameron
Mother: Martha Pfoutz
Wife: Margaret Brua (five children)
Son: J. Donald Cameron (US Senator)
Daughter: Virginia Rolette Cameron (m. Wayne MacVeagh)
US Senator, Pennsylvania (1867-77)
US Ambassador to Russia (1862)
US Secretary of War (1861-62)
US Senator, Pennsylvania (1857-61)
US Senator, Pennsylvania (1845-49)
Bank of Middletown Founder (1832)
Northern Central Railroad Founder
Pennsylvania State Official Adjutant General (1826)
Harrisburg Republican (1824)
Pennsylvania Intelligence Managing Partner (1821)
Bucks County Messenger (Doylestown, PA) Editor (1821)
Freemasonry
Funeral: Abraham Lincoln (1865) Pall bearer