J. Donald Cameron
Автор:
Jesse Russell,Ronald Cohn, 115 стр., издатель:
"Книга по Требованию", ISBN:
978-5-5082-0348-1
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! James Donald Cameron (May 14, 1833 – August 30, 1918) was an American politician from Pennsylvania who served as Secretary of War under President Ulysses S. Grant and in the United States Senate for nearly twenty years. In May, 1876 Cameron was part of a Cabinet realignment by President Grant, having been appointed after a brief tenure by Secretary Alphonso Taft, whom Grant appointed U.S. Attorney General. Former Secretary William W. Belknap had resigned from office, was impeached by the House for taking profit money from the Fort Sill tradership, put on trial in the Senate and acquitted. During Cameron's tenure the U.S. Military was challenged by the Great Sioux War and by the threat of a second Southern secession after the controversial election of President Rutherford B. Hayes that ended Reconstruction. The U.S. Military was also in a technological transition developing and improving torpedo mines to protect United States' waterways and...
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