Angus Cameron, former Senator for Wisconsin

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Cameron was a senator from Wisconsin and was a Republican. He served from 1881 to 1885.

He was previously a senator from Wisconsin as a Republican from 1875 to 1881.

Photo of Sen. Angus Cameron [R-WI, 1881-1885]

Voting Record

Missed Votes

From Mar 1875 to Mar 1885, Cameron missed 620 of 3,002 roll call votes, which is 20.7%. This is better than the median of 32.0% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Mar 1885. The chart below reports missed votes over time.

We don’t track why legislators miss votes, but it’s often due to medical absenses, major life events, and running for higher office.

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Time Period	Votes Eligible	Missed Votes	Percent	Percentile
Dec 1875-Mar 1876	89	9	10.1%	11^th
1876 Apr-Jul	186	96	51.6%	78^th
1876 Aug-Aug	51	3	5.9%	0^th
Dec 1876-Mar 1877	84	15	17.9%	28^th
1875 Mar-Mar	24	1	4.2%	6^th
1877 Oct-Dec	71	12	16.9%	55^th
Dec 1877-Feb 1878	69	6	8.7%	7^th
1878 Mar-May	110	9	8.2%	7^th
1878 Jun-Jun	83	34	41.0%	79^th
Dec 1878-Mar 1879	236	54	22.9%	38^th
1877 Mar-Mar	15	15	100.0%	92^nd
1879 Mar-Jul	191	41	21.5%	32^nd
Dec 1879-Feb 1880	49	10	20.4%	29^th
1880 Mar-May	127	32	25.2%	39^th
1880 Jun-Jun	39	14	35.9%	59^th
Dec 1880-Mar 1881	164	60	36.6%	70^th
Dec 1881-Mar 1882	96	25	26.0%	49^th
1882 Apr-Jul	212	27	12.7%	9^th
1882 Aug-Aug	38	5	13.2%	28^th
Dec 1882-Mar 1883	401	61	15.2%	6^th
1881 Mar-Mar	178	22	12.4%	23^rd
1881 Oct-Oct	61	1	1.6%	0^th
Dec 1883-Feb 1884	65	27	41.5%	61^st
1884 Mar-May	114	5	4.4%	3^rd
1884 Jun-Jul	78	8	10.3%	8^th
Dec 1884-Mar 1885	171	28	16.4%	19^th

Primary Sources

The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:

unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo

Sen. Angus Cameron

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Missed Votes

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