Ronald B. Cameron

Ronald Brooks Cameron (August 16, 1927 – February 1, 2006) was an American lawyer and politician who served two terms as a U.S. Representative from California's 25th congressional district from 1963 to 1967.

Born in Kansas City, Missouri on August 16, 1927, Cameron graduated from Western Reserve Academy, Hudson, Ohio, in 1945. He was in the United States Marine Corps from 1945 to 1946. Cameron attended Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio, from 1946 to 1947, and UCLA from 1949 to 1953. He received a J.D. from Pepperdine University School of Law, Malibu, California, in 1973.

Cameron became a certified public accountant in 1954. He served as a member of the California State Assembly from 1958 to 1962, and was a delegate to the 1960 and 1964 Democratic National Conventions.

Cameron was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-eighth and Eighty-ninth Congresses (January 3, 1963–January 3, 1967). He was defeated for re-election to the Ninetieth Congress in 1966. Cameron voted in voted in favor of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.

He resumed practice as an accountant and attorney. In 1970, he was the Democratic nominee for California State Controller. Cameron died on February 1, 2006, in Whittier, California.