Angus Cameron (politician)

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

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

In 1857, Cameron moved to La Crosse in 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 also was a member of the governing body ( board of regents ) of the University of Wisconsin- Madison.

As of March 4, 1875 Angus Cameron served first as a U.S. Senator in Washington. At the end of his six year term he applied not to the re-election and retired on March 3, 1881 from the Senate from. Only eleven days later he moved but have been back to the Panel, after he had been diagnosed at a by-election to succeed the late Senator Matthew H. Carpenter. Cameron remained another four years in the Senate and left this at his own request in March 1885.

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