Brooks, Preston S. 1819-1857
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Name (Latin)
Brooks, Preston S. 1819-1857
Other forms of name
Brooks, P. S. (Preston Smith), 1819-1857
Brooks, Preston Smith, 1819-1857
Date of birth
1819-08-05
Date of death
1857-01-27
Occupation
Lawyers
Legislators
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Biog. dir. of the U.S. Congress, viewed online, May 21, 2018(BROOKS, Preston Smith, a Representative from South Carolina; born in Edgefield District, S.C., Aug. 5, 1819; attended the common schools and was graduated from South Carolina College (now the University of South Carolina) at Columbia in 1839; studied law; was admitted to the bar in 1845 and commenced practice in Edgefield, S.C.; member of the State house of representatives in 1844; served in the Mexican War as captain in the Palmetto Regiment of South Carolina Volunteers; elected as a Democrat to the Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth Congresses and served until his resignation on July 14, 1856 (Mar. 4, 1853-July 14, 1856); resigned despite failed attempt to expel him for his assault upon Senator Charles Sumner; chairman, Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State (Thirty-fourth Congress); reelected in a special election to the Thirty-fourth Congress to fill the vacancy caused by his own resignation, sworn in Aug. 1, 1856, and served until his death (Aug. 1, 1856-Jan. 27, 1857); had been reelected to the Thirty-fifth Congress; died on Jan. 27, 1857, in Washington, D.C.; interment in Willow Brook Cemetery, Edgefield, S.C.)
- NUCMC data from Duke U. Lib. for Sumner, C. Letters, 1834-1874(Preston Brooks)
- DAB, 1929(Brooks, Preston Smith (1819-1857), S.C. congressman; b. Edgefield, S.C.; s. of Whitfield Brooks and Mary P. Carroll; m. Caroline H. Means, 1841 (d. 1843); m. 2d. Martha C. Means (cousin of 1st wife); served in Ho. of Rep. from S.C., 33-34 congresses; remembered for his physical attack of Senator Charles Sumner (Sumner never fully recovered) in Senate Chambers, May 22, 1856; d. Washington, D.C.)
- LC manual auth. cd.(hdg.: Brooks, Preston Smith, 1819-1857; usage: Preston S. Brooks)
- His Pacific railroad, 1854:t.p. (Hon. P.S. Brooks, of S. Carolina)