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Preston Brooks, the Glossary

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 Carolina, serving from 1853 until his resignation in July 1856 and again from August 1856 until his death.^[1]

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Abolitionism in the United States

In the United States, abolitionism, the movement that sought to end slavery in the country, was active from the colonial era until the American Civil War, the end of which brought about the abolition of American slavery, except as punishment for a crime, through the Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution (ratified 1865).

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Admission to the bar in the United States

Admission to the bar in the United States is the granting of permission by a particular court system to a lawyer to practice law in the jurisdiction.

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Ambrose S. Murray

Ambrose Spencer Murray (November 27, 1807 – November 9, 1885) was an American businessman and politician from New York.

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Ancestry.com

Ancestry.com LLC is an American genealogy company based in Lehi, Utah.

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Andrew Butler

Andrew Pickens Butler (November 18, 1796May 25, 1857) was an American lawyer, slaveholder, and United States senator from South Carolina who authored the Kansas-Nebraska Act with Senator Stephen Douglas of Illinois. Preston Brooks and Andrew Butler are 1857 deaths, American proslavery activists, Democratic Party members of the South Carolina House of Representatives, south Carolina lawyers and university of South Carolina alumni.

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Anson Burlingame

Anson Burlingame (November 14, 1820 – February 23, 1870) was an American lawyer, Republican/American Party legislator, diplomat, and abolitionist. Preston Brooks and Anson Burlingame are American duellists.

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Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era

Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era is a 1988 book on the American Civil War, written by James M. McPherson.

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Battle of Chapultepec

The Battle of Chapultepec took place between a U.S. force and Mexican soldiers holding the strategically located Chapultepec Castle just outside Mexico City, fought 13 September 1847 during the Mexican–American War.

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Bigbend, West Virginia

Big Bend (shown as Bigbend on federal maps) is an unincorporated community in Calhoun County, West Virginia, United States.

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Bowie knife

A Bowie knife is a pattern of fixed-blade fighting knife created by Rezin Bowie in the early 19th century for his brother James Bowie, who had become famous for his use of a large knife at a duel known as the Sandbar Fight.

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Brooks County, Georgia

Brooks County is a county located in the U.S. state of Georgia, on its southern border with Florida.

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Brooksville, Florida

Brooksville is a city and the county seat of Hernando County, Florida, in the United States.

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Caning of Charles Sumner

The caning of Charles Sumner, or the Brooks–Sumner Affair, occurred on May 22, 1856, in the United States Senate chamber, when Representative Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery Democrat from South Carolina, used a walking cane to attack Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist Republican from Massachusetts.

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Carey Wentworth Styles

Carey Wentworth Styles (October 7, 1825 – February 23, 1897) was an American lawyer and journalist who either founded or wrote for "at least" 21 newspapers in his career. Preston Brooks and carey Wentworth Styles are south Carolina lawyers.

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Charles Sumner

Charles Sumner (January 6, 1811March 11, 1874) was an American lawyer, politician, and statesman who represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate from 1851 until his death in 1874.

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Colonel (United States)

A colonel in the United States Army, Marine Corps, Air Force and Space Force, is the most senior field-grade military officer rank, immediately above the rank of lieutenant colonel and just below the rank of brigadier general.

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Croup

Croup, also known as laryngotracheobronchitis, is a type of respiratory infection that is usually caused by a virus.

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Democratic Party (United States)

The Democratic Party is one of the two major contemporary political parties in the United States.

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Digital Library of Georgia

The Digital Library of Georgia (DLG) is an online, public collection of documents and media about the history and culture of the state of Georgia, United States.

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Don Quixote

Don Quixote is a Spanish novel by Miguel de Cervantes.

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Edgefield County, South Carolina

Edgefield County is a county located on the western border of the U.S. state of South Carolina.

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Edgefield, South Carolina

Edgefield is a town in and the county seat of Edgefield County, South Carolina, United States.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Google Books

Google Books (previously known as Google Book Search, Google Print, and by its code-name Project Ocean) is a service from Google that searches the full text of books and magazines that Google has scanned, converted to text using optical character recognition (OCR), and stored in its digital database.

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Gutta-percha

Gutta-percha is a tree of the genus Palaquium in the family Sapotaceae.

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Henry A. Edmundson

Henry Alonzo Edmundson (June 14, 1814 – December 16, 1890) was a 19th-century Virginia lawyer, congressman, farmer, slaveowner and Confederate officer. Preston Brooks and Henry A. Edmundson are American proslavery activists and members of the United States House of Representatives who owned slaves.

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Illinois

Illinois is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Jefferson Literary and Debating Society

The Jefferson Literary and Debating Society (commonly known as "Jeff Soc") is the oldest continuously existing collegiate debating society in North America.

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John J. Crittenden

John Jordan Crittenden (September 10, 1787 – July 26, 1863) was an American statesman and politician from the U.S. state of Kentucky. Preston Brooks and John J. Crittenden are members of the United States House of Representatives who owned slaves.

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John McQueen

John McQueen (February 9, 1804 – August 30, 1867) was an American lawyer and politician. Preston Brooks and John McQueen are American proslavery activists, Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina and south Carolina lawyers.

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Kansas

Kansas is a landlocked state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Know Nothing

The Know Nothings were a nativist political movement in the United States in the 1850s, officially known as the Native American Party before 1855, and afterwards simply the American Party.

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Laurence M. Keitt

Laurence Massillon Keitt (October 4, 1824 – June 2, 1864) was an American planter, lawyer, politician, and soldier from South Carolina. Preston Brooks and Laurence M. Keitt are Democratic Party members of the South Carolina House of Representatives, Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina, members of the United States House of Representatives who owned slaves, south Carolina lawyers and university of South Carolina alumni.

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Lewis D. Campbell

Lewis Davis Campbell (August 9, 1811 – November 26, 1882) was an American politician as a U.S. Representative for Ohio.

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List of federal political scandals in the United States

This article provides a list of political scandals that involve officials from the government of the United States, sorted from oldest to most recent.

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List of United States Congress members who died in office (1790–1899)

The following is a list of United States senators and representatives who died of natural or accidental causes, or who killed themselves, while serving their terms between 1790 and 1899.

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List of United States representatives from South Carolina

The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of South Carolina.

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Louis Wigfall

Louis Trezevant Wigfall (April 21, 1816 – February 18, 1874) was an American politician who served as a Confederate States Senator from Texas from 1862 to 1865. Preston Brooks and Louis Wigfall are American duellists, American shooting survivors and university of South Carolina alumni.

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Mexican–American War

The Mexican–American War, also known in the United States as the Mexican War, and in Mexico as the United States intervention in Mexico, was an invasion of Mexico by the United States Army from 1846 to 1848.

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Milledge Luke Bonham

Milledge Luke Bonham (December 25, 1813August 27, 1890) was an American politician and Congressman. Preston Brooks and Milledge Luke Bonham are American military personnel of the Mexican–American War, Democratic Party members of the South Carolina House of Representatives, Democratic Party members of the United States House of Representatives from South Carolina, members of the United States House of Representatives who owned slaves, south Carolina lawyers and university of South Carolina alumni.

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Ninety Six, South Carolina

Ninety Six is a town in Greenwood County, South Carolina, United States.

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Ohio

Ohio is a state in the Midwestern region of the United States.

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Palmetto Regiment

The Palmetto Regiment of Volunteers of South Carolina was an infantry regiment that participated in the Mexican–American War.

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Province of North Carolina

The Province of North Carolina, originally known as Albemarle Province, was a proprietary colony and later royal colony of Great Britain that existed in North America from 1712 to 1776.

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Richmond Examiner

The Richmond Examiner, a newspaper which was published before and during the American Civil War under the masthead of Daily Richmond Examiner, was one of the newspapers published in the Confederate capital of Richmond.

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Sergeant at Arms of the United States House of Representatives

The sergeant at arms of the United States House of Representatives is an officer of the House with law enforcement, protocol, and administrative responsibilities.

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Sill plate

A sill plate or sole plate in construction and architecture is the bottom horizontal member of a wall or building to which vertical members are attached.

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Slavery in the United States

The legal institution of human chattel slavery, comprising the enslavement primarily of Africans and African Americans, was prevalent in the United States of America from its founding in 1776 until 1865, predominantly in the South.

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South Carolina

South Carolina is a state in the coastal Southeastern region of the United States.

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South Carolina's 4th congressional district

South Carolina's 4th congressional district is a congressional district in upstate South Carolina bordering North Carolina.

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Southern chivalry

Southern chivalry, or the Cavalier myth, was a popular concept describing the aristocratic honor culture of the Southern United States during the Antebellum, Civil War, and early Postbellum eras.

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States' rights

In American political discourse, states' rights are political powers held for the state governments rather than the federal government according to the United States Constitution, reflecting especially the enumerated powers of Congress and the Tenth Amendment.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Preston_Brooks

Also known as Preston S. Brooks, Preston Smith Brooks.

, Southern chivalry, States' rights, Stephen A. Douglas, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Journal of Asian Studies, The Washington Post, United States House of Representatives, United States Senate, University of Alabama, University of Richmond, University of South Carolina, Virginia, Washington, D.C., 33rd United States Congress.

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