permanently records the proceed- �Simon Cameron 1799 - 1889 �ings of Congress. At the close of the congressional session in the spring, Cameron, without much money, though doubtless the bene- ficiary of some good political schooling in Washington, returned to work in the printing office of his friend, James

The Deal for Philadelphia: Simon Cameron and the Genesis of a Political Machine, 1867-1872 by John D. Stewart II Moisei Ostrogorski observed in 1904: Sometimes an ambitious and specially gifted politician quickens or anticipates the process of natural evolution, he 'builds a machine' from top to

which their name is attached either deservingly or by as- sociation. The political fate of our subject, Simon Cameron, is that his name is often foremost among lists of 19th Century infamous politicians who are associated with public intrigue or, as in Camer- on's case, political corruption. Mr. Cameron