Preston Smith Brooks

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J.L. Magee's famous political cartoon of the beating of Charles Sumner.
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J.L. Magee's famous political cartoon of the beating of Charles Sumner.

Preston Smith Brooks (5 August 1819 – 27 January 1857) was a Congressman from South Carolina, known notoriously for brutally assaulting senator Charles Sumner on the floor of the United States Senate.

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