Preston Smith Brooks (August 5, 1819 – January 27, 1857) was an American slaveholder, politician and member of the U.S. House of Representatives from South...

Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate chamber, when Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery...

extrajudicial violence, most notably the caning of Charles Sumner by Preston Brooks, and contributed to the militarization of the South by encouraging young...

Robert Preston Brooks (July 23, 1881 in Milledgeville, Georgia – October 28, 1961 in Athens, Georgia) was one of the first recipients of the Rhodes Scholarship...

Preston Brook is a village and civil parish in the borough of Halton, a unitary authority in the ceremonial county of Cheshire in North West England....

subsequently brutally assaulted in the Senate chamber by Representative Preston Brooks (D-South Carolina), who was hailed as a hero by the pro-slavery South...

a vicious beating, almost to the point of death, by Representative Preston Brooks on the Senate floor. Sumner's severe injuries and extended absence from...

Peter Preston Brooks (born 1938) is an American literary theorist who is Sterling Professor Emeritus of Comparative Literature at Yale University and Andrew...

General Assembly and was named for pro-slavery U.S. Representative Preston Brooks, after he severely beat abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner with a cane...

terms. Two days later, Butler's cousin, the South Carolina Congressman Preston Brooks, nearly killed Sumner on the Senate floor with a heavy cane. The action...

in canes and walking sticks. In 1856, United States Representative Preston Brooks used a cane made of gutta-percha as a weapon in his attack on Senator...

to death on the floor of the Senate in the Capitol by Representative Preston Brooks from South Carolina, known as a hothead. Three decades after the Emancipation...

contracts were given by Graham Page for £6.3 million to Marples Ridgway for Preston Brook to Lymm, and to Robert McGregor & Sons for 5.2 miles (8.4 km) from Lymm...

Look up Preston in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Preston or Prestons may refer to: Preston, Victoria City of Preston (Victoria) Electoral district...

critic Peter Brooks, who is currently teaching at UVA. "Brooks, Peter 1938–". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved April 17, 2021. Peter Preston Brooks Helaine Olen...

merger of the towns of Melendez and Pierceville, took its name to honor Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery congressman from South Carolina, who caned and seriously...

Laila Lockhart Kraner Dr. Charles Hendrickson John Shea U.S. Marshal Preston Brooks Ron Canada Gordon Szalinski Stuart Pankin Patti Szalinski Robin Bartlett...

(the brutal caning of Charles Sumner by South Carolina Representative Preston Brooks in the Senate chamber) as election slogans. The Buchanan/Breckinridge...

Preston Brooks, the first cousin once removed of Butler, considered Sumner's speech an attack on his family honor. Two days after the speech, Brooks brutally...

slave trader, and one of the wealthiest women of that French colony. Preston Brooks (1819–1857), veteran of the Mexican–American War and U.S. Congressman...

Democratic Lance Enderle 128,657 37.3 Libertarian Daniel Goebel 8,083 2.3 Independent Preston Brooks 6,097 1.8 Total votes 345,054 100.0 Republican hold...

The area covered includes the villages of Clifton, Daresbury, Preston Brook, Preston on the Hill, and Moore. Three of the buildings in the area are classified...

Bridgewater Canal, which it joins at Preston Brook in Cheshire. Although mileposts measure the distance to Preston Brook and Shardlow, Derwent Mouth is about...

was censured by the House in 1856 for aiding Rep. Preston Brooks in his Caning of Charles Sumner. Brooks had considered challenging Sumner to a duel after...

May 22, 1856, Preston Brooks brutally assaulted Senator Charles Sumner on the Senate floor, leaving Sumner bloody and unconscious. Brooks had been upset...

Charles Sumner   Massachusetts (Senator) May 22, 1856 Preston Brooks Assault Representative Preston Brooks, a Democrat from South Carolina's 4th district, assaulted...

Robert, Bob or Bobby Brooks may refer to: Robert A. Brooks (1932–2000), American telecommunications entrepreneur Robert H. Brooks (1937–2006), founder...

Sumner, an abolitionist Senator, by one of his pro-slavery opponents, Preston Brooks, on the floor of the United States Senate. Argument from authority Conformity...

Adam's babysitter and Nick's love interest Ron Canada as U.S. Marshal Preston Brooks Amy O'Neill as Amy Szalinski, Wayne and Diane's college-bound daughter...

The 1856 caning of Senator Charles Sumner by Edgefield Congressman Preston Brooks on the floor of the United States Senate galvanized the nation and set...