Lacrosse County WI Archives Biographies.....Cameron, Angus July 4, 1826 - 
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ANGUS CAMERON, of La Crosse, was born at Caledonia, Livingston Co., N. Y., 
July 4, 1826; received an academic education, studied law at Buffalo, N. Y., 
and graduated at the National Law School, Ballston Spa; removed to La Crosse, 
Wis., in 1857; was a member of the State Senate of Wisconsin in 1863-64 and 
1871-72; was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Wisconsin in 1866 and 
1867, and was Speaker in 1867; was a member of the National Republican 
Convention at Baltimore in 1864; was one of the Regents of the University of 
Wisconsin in 1866 and 1875; was elected to the United States Senate as a 
Republican, took his seat March 4, 1875, and was re-elected in 1881, to 
succeed Matthew H. Carpenter, deceased. His term of service will expire March 
4, 1885. Senator Cameron was married to Miss Mary Baker, of Urbana, Steuben 
Co., N. Y., on the 21st of February, 1856.

Additional Comments:
From History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin, 1881, p. 744.

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