Cameron, Angus, 1826-1897
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- Biographical directory of the United States Congress website, viewed December 18, 2023:(Cameron, Angus, a Senator from Wisconsin; born in Caledonia, Livingston County, N.Y., July 4, 1826; attended the public schools and the Genesee Wesleyan Seminary, Lima, N.Y.; taught school; studied law in Buffalo, N.Y.; graduated from the National Law School, Ballston Spa, N.Y., in 1853; admitted to the bar the same year and commenced practice in Buffalo, N.Y.; engaged in banking for a year; moved to La Crosse, Wis., in 1857 and resumed the practice of law; member, State senate 1863-1864, 1871-1872; member, State assembly in 1866-1867, and served as speaker in 1867; regent of the University of Wisconsin 1866-1875; elected as a Republican to the United States Senate on February 3, 1875, and served from March 4, 1875, until March 3, 1881; was not a candidate for reelection in 1881; elected March 10, 1881, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of Matthew H. Carpenter and took his seat March 14, 1881, and served until March 3, 1885; was not a candidate for reelection; chairman, Committee on Claims (Forty-seventh and Forty-eighth Congresses); resumed the practice of law in La Crosse, Wis., and died there March 30, 1897; interment in Oak Grove Cemetery.)
- In the Senate of the United States, 1881?:p. 1 (Mr. Cameron, of Wisconsin, from the Committee on Claims)
- Members of Congress since 1789, 1977(Cameron, Angus, R. Wis., July 4, 1826-Mar. 30, 1897; Senate 1875-81, Mar. 14, 1881-85)
- MoSU-L/Nat. Am. files(usage: Angus Cameron; A. Cameron)
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Angus Cameron (July 4, 1824 – March 30, 1897) was an American lawyer, banker, Republican politician, and Wisconsin pioneer. He served ten years as a United States senator, representing Wisconsin from 1875 to 1885. He was appointed chairman of the select committee to investigate allegations of fraud in the hotly contested 1876 United States presidential election in South Carolina; his report found widespread terrorism and intimidation against African American voters. He was later chairman of the Committee on Claims during his last four years in the Senate. He was first elected to the Senate in the bitter 1875 election, when a faction of Republican legislators withheld their votes from incumbent U.S. senator Matthew H. Carpenter, resulting in a week-long stalemate; Cameron was ultimately elected by a coalition of the Republican holdouts and Democratic legislators. He was then not renominated in the regular 1881 election, but two months later he was quickly embraced by the Republican caucus in the 1881 special election to again succeed Matthew Carpenter. Before his election to the U.S. Senate, he served as the 18th speaker of the Wisconsin State Assembly and served four years in the Wisconsin Senate representing La Crosse County. His brothers Hugh Cameron and Dugald D. Cameron were also notable pioneers of the La Crosse region.
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