Angus Cameron (American politician)

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.