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Show Th Caraaroua. Denver Republican. Forty-live years ago Simon Cameron was elected to the United Slates senate from Pennsylvania to succeed James Buchanan, who resigned his scat to accept ac-cept the position of secretary of stat'1 iu : the cabinet of I'residont Folk. From that time on Mr. Cameron was either in the senate, a candidate for senator, a mem her of the cabinet or tilling diplomatic diplo-matic positions until 1877, when he resigned re-signed to give the succession to his son, J. Donald Cameron, who has just been elected for the fourth time. Ho was first chosen in 187? to till the unexpired term of two years of his father, was reelected re-elected for the full term in 187SI, reelected re-elected again in 1H8.1 and is now again re-elected for tho full term in 1M.I1. The father served in the senate eighteen yer.rs. Tho fourth election of the son will give him a continuous service of twenty years, thus making a period of fifty-two years from is)r to 1 Ki7 of the Cameron, in the senale whenever their party was in power. With the exception ex-ception of the Bayards and the Sauls-burys Sauls-burys from Delaware this Cameron ren-atorial ren-atorial history is exceptional in the annals of American politics. |