Preston Brooks was the name of a Democratic Representative who served the state of South Carolina from 1853 until he died in 1857. He was an advocate of slavery and was well known for an incident in which he beat up Senator Charles Sumner using a cane in 1956.
Yes because he did a bad thing
N 1856, South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks nearly killed Sumner on the Senate floor for ridiculing slaveowners as pimps in his vitriolic denunciation of the "Crime against Kansas."
He badly beat Senator Charles Sumner over a provocative speech against popular sovereignty and slavery.
It showed that passions over slavery were becoming dangerously inflamed in the North and the South.
The address of the Preston Arboretum is: Po Box 512, Preston, WA 98050-0512
Robert Preston Brooks was born in 1881.
Robert Preston Brooks died in 1961.
Preston Brooks died of croup in January 1857.
Preston Brooks died on 1857-01-27.
no he was not an senator
Charels Sumner.
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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.
He was beaten with a cane by Preston Brooks
Brooks beat Summers with a cane after Summers criticized slave owners, supporters of slaves, and Preston's cousin. It took Summers months to recover.
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