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South Carolina (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry brooks-preston-smith
Brooks, Preston Smith, 1819-
Legislator; born in Edgefield District, S. C., Aug. 4, 1819; was graduated at the South Carolina College in 1839: admitted to the bar in 1843; and elected to the State legislature in the following year.
He served with the South Carolina Palmetto Regiment through the Mexican War, and afterwards engaged in planting.
He was elected to Congress as a State-Rights Democrat in 1853, and held his seat till his death, in Washington, D. C., Jan. 27, 1857.
On May 22, 1856, he made a murderous assault on Charles Sumner, who had remained in his seat in the Senate Chamber attending to some unfinished business after the adjournment of the Senate for the day. Mr. Sumner became insensible from the attack, and is said to have suffered more or less from it till his death.
When the fact of the assault became known, the House of Representatives directed an investigation, and its committee reported in favor of expelling Mr. Brooks.
Subsequently, however, when the resol
Massachusetts (Massachusetts, United States) (search for this): entry brooks-preston-smith
Edgefield (South Carolina, United States) (search for this): entry brooks-preston-smith
Brooks, Preston Smith, 1819-
Legislator; born in Edgefield District, S. C., Aug. 4, 1819; was graduated at the South Carolina College in 1839: admitted to the bar in 1843; and elected to the State legislature in the following year.
He served with the South Carolina Palmetto Regiment through the Mexican War, and afterwards engaged in planting.
He was elected to Congress as a State-Rights Democrat in 1853, and held his seat till his death, in Washington, D. C., Jan. 27, 1857.
On May 22, 1856, he made a murderous assault on Charles Sumner, who had remained in his seat in the Senate Chamber attending to some unfinished business after the adjournment of the Senate for the day. Mr. Sumner became insensible from the attack, and is said to have suffered more or less from it till his death.
When the fact of the assault became known, the House of Representatives directed an investigation, and its committee reported in favor of expelling Mr. Brooks.
Subsequently, however, when the reso
New Jersey (New Jersey, United States) (search for this): entry brooks-preston-smith
Washington (United States) (search for this): entry brooks-preston-smith
Brooks, Preston Smith, 1819-
Legislator; born in Edgefield District, S. C., Aug. 4, 1819; was graduated at the South Carolina College in 1839: admitted to the bar in 1843; and elected to the State legislature in the following year.
He served with the South Carolina Palmetto Regiment through the Mexican War, and afterwards engaged in planting.
He was elected to Congress as a State-Rights Democrat in 1853, and held his seat till his death, in Washington, D. C., Jan. 27, 1857.
On May 22, 1856, he made a murderous assault on Charles Sumner, who had remained in his seat in the Senate Chamber attending to some unfinished business after the adjournment of the Senate for the day. Mr. Sumner became insensible from the attack, and is said to have suffered more or less from it till his death.
When the fact of the assault became known, the House of Representatives directed an investigation, and its committee reported in favor of expelling Mr. Brooks.
Subsequently, however, when the reso
Canada (Canada) (search for this): entry brooks-preston-smith
Baltimore, Md. (Maryland, United States) (search for this): entry brooks-preston-smith
Charles Sumner (search for this): entry brooks-preston-smith
Preston Smith Brooks (search for this): entry brooks-preston-smith
Brooks, Preston Smith, 1819-
Legislator; born in Edgefield District, S. C., Aug. 4, 1819; was graduated at the South Cargation, and its committee reported in favor of expelling Mr. Brooks.
Subsequently, however, when the resolution came up foe Anson Burlingame (q. v.), of Massachusetts, challenged Mr. Brooks to fight a duel in consequence of words used in a debate in the House, but Mr. Brooks failed to appear at the designated time and place in Canada.
After the assault Mr. Brooks resMr. Brooks resigned his seat in the House, but his constituents immediately re-elected him, and he was presented with numerous tokens of eth.
His defence of the assault.
On July 14. 1856,. Mr. Brooks, in resigning his seat in Congress.
delivered the follod this I know.
(Applause and hisses in the gallery.)
Mr. Brooks (resuming) :--If I desired to kill the Senator, why did to this House, that I am no longer a member of the thirty-fourth Congress.
Mr. Brooks then withdrew from the chamber.