Angus Cameron

Angus Cameron

Angus Cameron (born July 4, 1826 in Caledonia , New York , † March 30, 1897 in La Crosse , Wisconsin ) was an American politician ( Republican Party ) who represented the state of Wisconsin in the US Senate .

Angus Cameron attended public schools and a seminary school in Lima , which later became Syracuse University . He graduated from a law school in Ballston Spa and worked afterwards as a lawyer and in the banking industry in Buffalo .

In 1857, Cameron moved to La Crosse, Wisconsin, where he became politically active. From 1863 to 1864 he sat in the State Senate , from 1871 to 1872 he was Speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly . He was also a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin – Madison .

On March 4, 1875, Angus Cameron first served as a US Senator in Washington . At the end of his six-year term, he did not apply for re-election and left the Senate on March 3, 1881. Just eleven days later, however, he was already back on the body after being elected to succeed the late Senator Matthew H. Carpenter in a by-election . Cameron remained in the Senate for another four years and left it at his own request in March 1885.

Angus Cameron died in La Crosse in 1897, where a park was named after him.

Web links

• Angus Cameron in the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (English)

• Angus Cameron in the database of Find a Grave (English)