Robert Preston Brooks died in 1961.
Robert Preston Brooks was born in 1881.
Preston Brooks died of croup in January 1857.
Preston Brooks died on 1857-01-27.
Robert Preston Bruce died in 1893.
Preston Robert Tisch died on 2005-11-15.
Robert Preston died on March 21, 1987 at the age of 68.
William Robert Brooks died in 1921.
Robert W. Brooks died in 2002.
Robert H. Brooks died in 2006.
no he was not an senator
Charels Sumner.
Preston Brooks, of South Carolina. Its little understood today that there was a meaning to the method of Brook's assault. Brooks beat Sumner with a cane. If Brooks had considered Sumner to be a "gentleman", he would have challenged Sumner to a duel. By simply attacking and beating him he was saying that Sumner was not a gentleman, and did not deserve the respect one should accord a gentleman.