Duncan Cameron "Cam" Reed (July 2, 1815 – September 14, 1890) was an American steamship engineer and Democratic politician, and an early settler of Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
[4] Reed served four years (1850-1853) as a Democratic member of the State Senate, first from the Eighteenth District, then (after a redistricting) from the Sixth.
[6] In 1853 Reed was a colonel of the 1st Regiment, 1st Division of the Wisconsin Militia under Major General Rufus King.
[7] On August 21, 1862, he was commissioned a captain in the 24th Wisconsin Infantry Regiment (which "Cam" had helped organize) commanding Company "E"; but he was discharged in January 1863.
He was appointed a boiler inspector for the Steamboat Inspection Service of the United States government during the Grant administration,[8] a position he would hold until his death.