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Author: RMunns7272
Surnames: Cameron, Carpenter, Baker
Classification: biography
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From "History of La Crosse County, Wisconsin", 1881, p. 744.
City of La Crosse
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.
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