He badly beat Senator Charles Sumner over a provocative speech against popular sovereignty and slavery.
Yes because he did a bad thing
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.
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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."
Preston Brooks died of croup in January 1857.
Preston Brooks died on 1857-01-27.
Robert Preston Brooks was born in 1881.
Robert Preston Brooks died in 1961.
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.
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He was beaten with a cane by Preston Brooks
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Claim to Fame was created in 2009.
The ISBN of Claim to Fame is 1416939172.